“The truth of the scholar, alone in his study, does not always accord with what the world at large considers to be true.” WorldDoeTruthStudyBeing TrueScholarAccord Book:Musashi Source: Musashi
“Studies show that when we vocalize an opinion, whether or not we believe it to be true, in time we usually come to support it.” BelieveShowsOpinionSupportStudyBeing True Author:David J. Lieberman
“Today we have a weakness in our education process in failing to understand the natural associations between the disciplines. We tend to study all our disciplines in unrelated parallel lines. This tends to be true in both Christian and secular education. This is one of the reasons why evangelical Christians have been taken by surprise at the tremendous shift that has come in our generation.” Has BeensReasonTodayChristianProcessNaturalLinesStudyTakenFailingGenerationsDisciplineWeaknessSurpriseBeing TrueReason WhyAssociationSecularParallelsEvangelicalOur GenerationParallel Lines Book:Escape from Reason Source: Escape from Reason
“The broader the chess player you are, the easier it is to be competitive, and the same seems to be true of mathematics - if you can find links between different branches of mathematics, it can help you resolve problems. In both mathematics and chess, you study existing theory and use that to go forward.” IfsDifferentHelpingUseProblemSeemsStudyPlayerTheoryEasierMathematicsChessBeing TrueBranchesResolveLinksChess Players Author:Viswanathan Anand
“The answer comes to me through studying the lives of the Rosa Parks and the Vaclav Havels and the Nelson Mandelas and the Dorothy Days of this world. These are people who have come to understand that no punishment that anybody could lay on us could possibly be worse than the punishment we lay on ourselves by conspiring in our own diminishment, by living a divided life, by failing to make that fundamental decision to act and speak on the outside in ways consonant with what we know to be true on the inside.” PeopleKnowsWorldWaySpeakDecisionAnswersStudyFailingThis WorldFundamentalsLaysPunishmentBeing TrueParksDividedNelsonRosaConspiringConsonants Author:Parker J. Palmer