Ron Penner

“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant,” Albert Einstein once said. “We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.”
― Daniel Goleman, Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence

“So the left hemisphere needs certainty and needs to be right. The right hemisphere makes it possible to hold several ambiguous possibilities in suspension together without premature closure on one outcome.”
― Iain McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World

“Governments don't want a population capable of critical thinking, they want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation.”
― George Carlin

“we have to be constantly vigilant to undermine language’s attempt to undermine our understanding.”
― Iain McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World