Ken Wilber Quotes

These two enormous forces - truth and meaning - are at war in today's world. ...And something sooner or later has to give.

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• In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Bad
  • Guy
  • Black

• I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.

  

  Harlan Ellison
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Stupid

• I love creating characters that people may or may have not ever seen before. But I enjoy the opportunity to try to make something new, and that's when I really come alive as an actor, so I really enjoyed working on 'Arrow.'

  

  J. August Richards
  • People
  • Love
  • May

• The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Nobody
  • Some
  • Manufacturing

• I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Writing
  • Way
  • Like

• I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.

  

  Kate Fleetwood
  • Music
  • Like
  • Dance

• Any form of art is political if you make it that way.

  

  D.R.A.M.
  • Art
  • Political
  • Way

• You don't go out and change your gender for a television show, O.K.? It ain't happening. I don't care who you are.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Change
  • Care
  • Gender

• I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Work
  • Music
  • Girl

• We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Life
  • Human
  • Abundance

• A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Book
  • Man
  • Library

• All too often, government's response to social breakdown has been a classic case of 'patching' - a case of handing money out, containing problems and limiting the damage but, in doing so, supporting - even reinforcing - dysfunctional behaviour.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Money
  • Government
  • Problems

• I hadn't thought that women were particularly dangerous golfers. Could that be the reason that the Augusta National Golf club refuses to take down its 'No Women Allowed' sign?

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Women
  • Thought
  • Golf

• I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Important
  • Truth
  • Religion

• You can take any one of our stories that we use right now, put western clothes on us, stick us out in the west and they'll work just as well - any single one of them - because they're stories about people, they're stories about things.

  

  Majel Barrett
  • People
  • Work
  • Single

• Our quarterbacks were getting hurt; a couple got kicked out of school. The coach asked who wanted to try out for QB. I went and tried out, and from there on, I was a quarterback. I was ineligible in 10th grade until spring, so I did baseball. I started in left field and pitched.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • School
  • Couple
  • Hurt

• Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Good
  • Great
  • Hope

• I always say it took me 10 minutes to write 'Cars,' but if I am honest it could have been even less than that - and it has been a really successful song over the years. It is still massively used, in advertising, in films, and people do cover versions of it a lot.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Song
  • Films
  • Advertising

• I spend a lot of time on eBay buying vintage. I also really like Alexander Wang, Miu Miu, Vivienne Westwood, McQueen and Balmain.

  

  Katie McGrath
  • Time

• I think it's more fun to grow to love characters who are flawed than it is to present perfect characters. Perfect characters aren't very funny. Certainly my friends are a strange, intense bunch of people, and people's families drive them crazy, but challenging relationships are always more rewarding.

  

  Christopher McCulloch
  • People
  • Friends
  • Fun

• With her grace and grit, and the will to lead change, Misty Copeland is truly a ballerina for our time.

  

  Heather Watts
  • Grace
  • Grit
  • Ballerina

• I believe we are here to do good. It is the responsibility of every human being to aspire to do something worthwhile, to make the world a better place than the one we found.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • World
  • Good
  • Believe

• It seems that sin is geographical. From this conclusion, it is only a small step to the further conclusion that the notion of 'sin' is illusory, and that the cruelty habitually practised in punishing it is unnecessary.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Small

• These two enormous forces - truth and meaning - are at war in today's world. ...And something sooner or later has to give.

  

  Ken Wilber
  • World
  • Truth
  • War