Govinda Quotes

I always told myself that if I was going to be given a voice, I might as well say something worth listening to and not something that's just going to feed people stupidity.

I love the gray areas, but I like the gray areas as considered by bright, educated, courageous people.

I am basically analytical, not creative; my writing is simply a creative way of handling analysis.

If you listen first, and write later, then what you write will have had time to filter through your brain and you'll be in what you say. This is what makes you exist. If you are only a reflector of information, are you really there?

Once your faith persuades you to believe what your intelligence declares absurd, beware, lest you likewise sacrifice your reason in the conduct of your life.

A book full of brilliance imparts some of it even to its opponents.

Profound insights arise only in debate, with a possibility of counterargument, only when there is a possibility of expressing not only correct ideas but also dubious ideas.

Frederick Buechner is one of my favorite writers. The Eyes of the Heart is beautiful and wise, full of insight, charm, and tenderness.

Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.

One of the painful signs of years of dumbed-down education is how many people are unable to make a coherent argument. They can vent their emotions, question other people's motives, make bold assertions, repeat slogans-- anything except reason.

Whoever in debate quotes authority uses not intellect, but memory.

Science when well-digested is nothing but good sense and reason.

It may be said, almost without qualification, that true wisdom consists in the ready and accurate perception of analogies. Without the former quality, knowledge of the past is unobstructive: without the latter it is deceptive.

Thinking is one of the most important weapons in dealing with problems

The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; as a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum.

For instance, in places like universities, where everyone speaks so rationally, it is necessary for a kind of enchanter to appear.

Wisdom lies in thinking. The spear-head of thinking is rationalism.

Questions don't have to make sense, Vincent," said Miss Susan. "But answers do.

Reasoning is never, like poetry, judged from the outside at all.

Reason is Life's sole arbiter, themagic Laby'rinth's single clue.

I'm an academic. I'm hardwired for a good debate.

That great philosopher anonymous once said, never argue with a fool. People might not know the difference.

We know you have a great mind and all, Mother, but you don’t have much sense.

I find you want me to furnish you with argument and intellects too. No, sir, these, I protest you, are too hard for me.

Do you come to a philosopher as to a cunning man, to learn something by magic or witchcraft, beyond what can be known by common prudence and discretion?