Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

Bertrand Russell

No amount of sophistication is going to allay the fact that all your knowledge is about the past and all your decisions are about the future.

Ian Wilson

It is more often from pride than from ignorance that we are so obstinately opposed to current opinions; we find the first places taken, and we do not want to be the last.

François de La Rochefoucauld

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.

Dogen

Only if we understand, will we care. Only if we care, will we help. Only if we help shall all be saved.

Jane Goodall