Disconfirmed Quotes

#1. One concrete way in which we all landscape our sanity is by having our experience of reality confirmed by others. When our experience of reality is disconfirmed by others, our confidence in our own sanity can be undermined.
(page 125, Chapter 9, Graeme Galton)

Graeme Galton

#2. For example, I was discussing the use of email and how impersonal it can be, how people will now email someone across the room rather than go and talk to them. But I don't think this is laziness, I think it is a conscious decision people are making to save time.

Margaret J. Wheatley

#3. I am convinced that we must train not only the head, but the heart and hand as well.

Soong May-ling

#4. One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

Lewis Mumford

#5. On June 30th, 1983, I wrote in my diary, "Why couldn't I write more when I was little? I would've known what my life was like to me then.

Rebecca Rose Orton

#6. The self is coming from a state of pure awareness from the state of being. All the rest that comes about in a outward manifesation of the physical world, including fluctuations which end up as thoughts and actions

Aldous Huxley

#7. The picnic shakes as Pigpen climbs it from behind, then plants himself next to me. "We should change your road name to F-U-F. Fucked-Up and Forlorn.

Katie McGarry