Andreas R

“If all the oceans were ink and all the trees were pens, they couldn't write the knowledge that God has.”
― Muhammad Ali, Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times

“Orr was not a fast reasoner. In fact, he was not a reasoner. He arrived at ideas the slow way, never skating over the clear, hard ice of logic, nor soaring on the slipstreams of imagination, but slogging, plodding along on the heavy ground of existence.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

“Confabulation, distortion, and plain forgetting are the foot soldiers of memory, and they are summoned to the front lines when the totalitarian ego wants to protect us from the pain and embarrassment of actions we took that are dissonant with our core self-images.”
― Carol Tavris, Elliot Aronson

“Once in a while there was a volcanic outburst into the consciousness, when some new idea, the solution to a problem, burbled up flecked with the detritus of its birth - pride, rage, ambition, prejudice, all the freight of human creativity.”
― Dennis Overbye, Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos: The Story of the Scientific Quest for the Secret of the Universe