The map is not the territory (coined by Alfred Korzybski), and the name is not the thing named.

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

You don’t have to be faster than a bullet, you just need to be smarter than the man holding the gun.

Please leave me alone

I grew up in rural Dixon, CA, and I've been hunting with my father ever since I was a young boy. He taught me how to hunt and shoot, firearm safety, and have respect for the outdoors.

Eating well is really important to me. That means having balanced meals, never missing a meal, never skipping a meal, having a balanced diet, and never doing anything extreme.

Our effort to build stability through authoritarians in the Middle East for 60 years had given us neither democracy nor stability.

When I was quite a boy I had a spasm of religion which lasted six weeks... But I never since have swallowed the Christian fable.

Where I felt comfortable was being the one that everyone liked to party with. And it was kind of the way I could fit in.

Are you prepared to take a dive into the deep end of my head?

Thou tyrant, tyrant Jealousy, Thou tyrant of the mind!

I'm not going to be anybody's punching bag.