Let's not pretend that mental phenomena can be mapped on to the characteristics of billiard balls.

The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think.

The meaning of your communication is the response you get.

But epistemology is always and inevitably personal. The point of the probe is always in the heart of the explorer: What is my answer to the question of the nature of knowing?

We can never be quite clear whether we are referring to the world as it is or to the world as we see it.

Yes, metaphor. That's how the whole fabric of mental interconnections holds together. Metaphor is right at the bottom of being alive.

The creature that wins against its environment destroys itself.

Information is a difference that makes a difference.

What is the pattern that connects the crab to the lobster and the primrose to the orchid, and all of them to me, and me to you?

If a man achieves or suffers change in premises which are deeply embedded in his mind, he will surely find that the results of that change will ramify throughout his whole universe.

Without context words and actions have no meaning at all

Reputation is an invisible force that works for or against you based on the efforts you put to persevere building your character

Take a seat, Charlie, ” he said. “I’ll kill you in a few minutes. It’ll be good for you.

My older brother Joel became an art teacher my brother Rip ultimately became a television producer and singer and actor himself.

Work on your craft, and your career will come. Work on your community, and your career will come. But just work on your career, and youll have neither a craft nor a community.

We shall say that we have acquaintance with anything of which we are directly aware, without the intermediary of any process of inference of any knowledge of truths.

I want it all - and I would like it delivered.

The avarice of the old: it's absurd to increase one's luggage as one nears the journey's end.

In order to be successful, I had to be willing to grow and change to become whoever I needed to be.

At age 19, I read a book [The Intelligent Investor] and what I'm doing today, at age 76, is running things through the same thought process I learned from the book I read at 19.