“The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.” – Saint Augustine

“Two important characteristics of maps should be noticed. A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness.” – Alfred Korzybski

“The world can doubtless never be well known by theory: practice is absolutely necessary; but surely it is of great use to a young man, before he sets out for that country, full of mazes, windings, and turnings, to have at least a general map of it, made by some experienced traveler.” – Lord Chesterfield

“True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.” – Winston Churchill

“Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.” – Winston Churchill

“The foolish reject what they see and not what they think; the wise reject what they think and not what they see.” – Huang Po

“Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss what insults your own, and your very flesh shall be a great poem.” – Walt Whitman

“A problem well stated is a problem half solved.” – Charles F. Kettering

“Face reality as it is, not as you wish it to be.” – Jack Welch

“Wisdom begins in wonder.” – Socrates

“Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.” – Thomas Jefferson

“Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as what you do find to be the facts of the situation.” – Bernard M. Baruch, “The Lone Wolf on Wall Street” and Presidential Advisor

“My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.” – Peter F. Drucker

“It’s amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.” – Charles F. Kettering

“A good plan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the best way to get there.” – H. Stanley Judd

“If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.” – Norman Augustine

“What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone?” – Winston Churchill

“The wise man bridges the gap by laying out the path by means of which he can get from where he is to where he wants to go.” – J. P. Morgan

“The unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates

“When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” – Dr. Wayne Dyer