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The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.
William Irwin Thompson
Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.
William Inge
The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.
William Inge
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
William Inge
Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.
William Inge
The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.
William Inge
The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.
William Inge
The problem with Google is you have 360 degrees of omnidirectional information on a linear basis, but the algorithms for irony and ambiguity are not there. And those are the algorithms of wisdom.
William Hurt
Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge.
William Hurt
No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.
William Howard Taft