
Interview with John Newark (1990) from Interviews with John Kenneth Galbraith (2004), ed. James Ronald Stanfield and Jacqueline Bloom Stanfield
Judit Kawaguchi, "Words to Live By: Hiroo Onoda"
Interview with John Newark (1990) from Interviews with John Kenneth Galbraith (2004), ed. James Ronald Stanfield and Jacqueline Bloom Stanfield
“This thou must always bear in mind, what is the nature of the whole…”
Τούτων ἀεὶ μεμνῆσθαι, τίς ἡ τῶν ὅλων φύσις
II, 9
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book II
Source: The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge
“In order to learn, one must change one's mind.”
“One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.”
Aphorism 52
Les Caractères (1688), Des jugements
“And it always seems to stick in one's mind more than reality does.”
As quoted in "Terry Gilliam reflects to Dreams about the making of Dr Parnassus" by Phil Stubbs http://www.smart.co.uk/dreams/parntgrf.htm
Context: We read Dover Books, because you can steal from them. The medieval imagery and iconography is so good for the imagination. Trying to describe the world, trying to describe the cosmos, trying to put it down in neat orderly fashion, unlike reality. And it always seems to stick in one's mind more than reality does.
“To be a good diarist, one must have a little snouty, sneaky mind.”
Diary, 9 Nov 1947
“One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.”
“Some temptations cannot be fought. One must close one's mind and fly from them.”
Source: The Keys of the Kingdom (1941), p. 90