“There's not much you need to know about the world. Except how to use a sword and trust very few.”
Source: Froi of the Exiles
The Necessary Angel (1951), Imagination as Value
“There's not much you need to know about the world. Except how to use a sword and trust very few.”
Source: Froi of the Exiles
The Castle in the Air.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“The world's most sensible person and the biggest idiot both stay within us.”
Attributed to Thoreau, in The Life You Were Born to Live : A Guide to Finding Your Life Purpose (1995) by Dan Millman, p. xi, and to Ralph Waldo Emerson in Promotion of Pharmaceuticals : Issues, Trends, Options (1993) by Dev S. Pathak, Alan Escovitz, and Suzan Kucukarslan, p. 74, but no occurrence of it prior to the 1990s has been located.
Disputed
Source: World views. From Fragmentation to Integration (1994), p. 8
“Through imagination, we can visualize the uncredited worlds of potential that lie within us.”
“Chairman Mao was the first in the world to use Twitter. All his quotations are within 140 words.”
2000-09, The Bold and the Beautiful, 2009