“If we could only find out who's in charge, we could kill him.”
George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian
Aesthetics of the Oppressed (2006)
“If we could only find out who's in charge, we could kill him.”
George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian
Samuel Smiles (1812–1904) Scottish author
Source: Self-Help; with Illustrations of Character and Conduct (1859), Ch. XI : Self-Culture — Facilities and Difficulties.
Source: The Lives Of George And Robert Stephenson
Context: We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
“In love we find out who we want to be, in war we find out who we are.”
Kristin Hannah book The Nightingale
Source: The Nightingale
“What we find changes who we become.”
Peter Morville (1950) British businessman
Steven Pressfield (1943) United States Marine
Variant: Our job in this life is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.
Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles
Samuel Smiles (1812–1904) Scottish author
Source: Self-Help; with Illustrations of Character and Conduct (1859), Ch. XI : Self-Culture — Facilities and Difficulties
“I mean, we're all trying to find out who the hell we are, aren't we?”
Robert Ludlum book The Bourne Identity
Source: The Bourne Identity
“We do not need to go out and find love; rather, we need to be still and let love discover us.”
John O'Donohue (1956–2008) Irish writer, priest and philosopher
Source: Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom