As quoted in What Matters Most : The Power of Living Your Values (2001) by Hyrum W. Smith , p. 111
The Operating Instructions in The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination (2004)
“In the light, we read the inventions of others; in the darkness we invent our own stories.”
Source: The Library at Night
“Should we stick with the Goth Detectives from when we won last year? Where's our trophy?”
Big Fat Quiz of the Year (2007)
“Till we know that, what is all our knowledge; how shall we even so much as "detect?”
For the vulpine sharpness, which considers itself to be knowledge, and "detects" in that fashion, is far mistaken. Dupes indeed are many: but, of all dupes, there is none so fatally situated as he who lives in undue terror of being duped.
1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero As King
Quotation is from the October 3, 2000 Presidential debate with Al Gore, but is taken out of context. Bush was paraphrasing Colin Powell and Norman Schwarzkopf:
The other day, I was honored to be flanked by Colin Powell and General Norman Schwarzkopf, who stood by my side and agreed with me. They said we could, even though we're the strongest military, that if we don't do something quickly, we don't have a clearer vision of the military, if we don't stop extending our troops all around the world in nation-building missions, then we're going to have a serious problem coming down the road. And I'm going to prevent that. I'm going to rebuild our military power. It's one of the major priorities of my administration. http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2000/debates/transcripts/u221003.html
Attributed, Misquotations
“We are journalists, and our mission is clear – to distinguish between facts and fiction.”
“The world, as we perceive it, is our own invention.”
Heinz von Foerster (1988) The Invented Reality p.45–46
1980s
