Few people have the imagination for reality.

                                                         ––Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Call a thing immoral or ugly, soul-destroying or a degradation of man, a peril to the peace of the world or to the well-being of future generations; as long as you have not shown it to be “uneconomic” you have not really questioned its right to exist, grow, and prosper.                                                              ––E.F. Schumacher

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing. We cannot use our hands, or our legs, or our eyes, or our arms. We do not know an edible root in the woods. We cannot tell our course by the stars, nor the hour of the day by the sun. It is well if we can swim and skate. We are afraid of a horse, of a cow, of a dog, of a cat, of a spider. Far better was the Roman rule to teach a boy nothing that he could not learn standing.

                                                                         ––Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.                    ––Goethe

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.                                                                            ––Arthur Schopenhauer

Faced with the choice between changing one’s mind and proving there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.

––John Kenneth Galbraith

The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.                                                      ––Dorothy L. Sayers

It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.                    ––Goethe

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.                                                  ––H. L. Mencken