Quote of the Day -- Dale Carnegie

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. 

-- Dale Carnegie

Quote of the Day -- Hannah Arendt

Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it and by the same token to save it from that ruin, which, except for renewal, except for the coming of the new and the young, would be inevitable. An education, too, is where we decide whether we love our children enough not to expel them from our world and leave them to their own devices, nor to strike from their hands their choice of undertaking something new, something unforeseen by us, but to prepare them in advance for the task of renewing a common world. 

-- Hannah Arendt

Quote of the Day -- Joseph Conrad

It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes.  

-- Joseph Conrad

Quote of the Day -- Laozi

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love. 

-- Laozi

Quote of the Day -- Albert Einstein

Information is not knowledge.

― Albert Einstein

Quote of the Day -- Rachel Carson

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature — the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.

But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself. 

-- Rachel Carson

Quote of the Day -- Richard Dawkins

When two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong. 

-- Richard Dawkins

Quote of the Day -- Kevin Kelly

A good question is not concerned with a correct answer. A good question cannot be answered immediately. A good question challenges existing answers. A good question is one you badly want answered once you hear it, but had no inkling you cared before it was asked. A good question creates new territory of thinking. A good question reframes its own answers. A good question is the seed of innovation in science, technology, art, politics, and business. A good question is a probe, a what-if scenario. A good question skirts on the edge of what is known and not known, neither silly nor obvious. A good question cannot be predicted. A good question will be the sign of an educated mind. A good question is one that generates many other good questions. A good question may be the last job a machine will learn to do. A good question is what humans are for. 

-- Kevin Kelly

Quote of the Day -- Helen Oyeyemi

You know that book; you forget the title after you’ve returned it and over the years you try to look it up a few times, but you never find it again.

-- Helen Oyeyemi

Quote of the Day -- Malcolm Gladwell

"...overconfidence is a disease of experts” and “incompetence is a disease of idiots,” he says. And while Idiots “don’t get that far in the world,” experts “rise to positions of leadership.”Overconfident leaders often “have an estimation of their abilities that is greater than their actual abilities. That’s a very serious problem and that leads to mistakes every bit as consequential, if not more consequential than the mistakes of incompetence.  

-- Malcolm Gladwell