Steve Gillman's Quotes

To challenge a premise is to open a door for a look at what’s inside. We are free to enter or not, stay or leave. But refusing to open that door is to refuse the treasure that may be but a few steps away. - Steve Gillman

I am not anything my thoughts tell me I am, and in remembering this I gain freedom from a thousand painful illusions. - Steve Gillman

Having new ideas is easy - making something of them is where the hard work begins. - Steve Gillman

From the most playful thoughts great truths are discovered. - Steve Gillman

Logic only proves an argument correct according to the terms defined, but reality is never contained in or constrained by our words. - Steve Gillman

Heresy is often a path to a better, more peaceful world. - Steve Gillman

Favorite Quotes From Others

We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. - Albert Einstein

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try! - Dr. Seuss

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. - Aristotle

Life is “trying things to see if they work.” - Ray Bradbury

Feeling ashamed over who or what you were in days gone by, is like a newly opened rose blushing for having once been a bud. - Guy Finley

Logic is an organized way of going wrong with confidence. - Robert Heinlein

If devotion to truth is the hallmark of morality, then there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking… the alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short-circuit destroying the mind. - Ayn Rand

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it. - Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha)

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