Quote by George Eliot

“This is the mark of great ideas: they unify people and they also act to unify the disparate parts of the human being; they…

— Jacob Needleman

“Insofar as we appreciate order, it is when we perceive it as being accompanied by complexity, when we feel that a variety of elements…

— Alain de Botton

Orders can be benign or malign, but the habit of obeying them can become ingrained.

— Theodore Dalrymple

“Do not stand before the fork in the road with indecisive decisions!”

— Michael S. McKinney

If you're operating from strong principles, you can compromise when the person on the other side is operating from principles you respect.

— Travis Kalanick

“Second and third opinions can be valuable, but don’t spin your wheels and lose time by getting ten opinions.”

— Peter Black

Explanations comfort us by giving the impression that there is an order in things.

— Mason Cooley

“This ordering becomes the standard on which everything is based.”

— Barbara Bolt

“Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming…

— Albert Einstein

“When the chair is full, we see the person sitting on it, not the chair. If you stuff yourself too much with other people's…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“In a Party member, on the other hand, not even the smallest deviation of opinion on the most unimportant subject can be tolerated.”

— George Orwell

“When everyone is conditioned to believe that no isn’t an acceptable answer, we all just became compliant order takers, blindly marching down a doomed…

— Gene Kim