They know enough who know how to learn.
The real guru is the pure intellect within; and the purified, deeply aspiring mind is the disciple.
Silently hear everyone. Accept what is good. Reject and forget what is not. This is intelligent living.
Don't put the key to your happiness in someone else's pocket
Happiness depends on what you can give, not on what you can get.
Leave aside your regrets of the past and anxieties of the future And focus intelligently on the present. This is the best way of ensuring a positive future.
Children are not vessels to be filled but lamps to be lit.
Even very smart people can try to shoehorn new information that just doesn't fit into an existing paradigm. For a long time the story that we've been telling ourselves is that humans are just another animal. We evolved from other animals and our place in the universe isn't particularly special. What I'm trying to convey my book [The Sixth Extinction] is that we are unusual.
Im always trolling for trivia.
The rocket that goes up next March will not only lift a payload, it will launch what I believe will ultimately be the most significant commercial space facility in the country,. . . This launch will be a brilliant signal flare that will let the nation and the world know New Mexico's spaceport is open for business. We can now say with certainty that the dream of this spaceport launching a new era in New Mexico's aerospace industry will become reality.
I think it's great when writers get recognition; it doesn't happen very often. I just don't want that writer to be me. Let it be Aaron Sorkin or, you know, somebody good.