Wisdom

• “Der Gang des Fortschritts schien ihnen ebenso selbstverständlich wie die Umdrehung der Erde, denn diese Überzeugung erlaubte ihnen ja, ruhig zuzusehen und mit gekreuzten Armen alles geschehen zu lassen.”
  Romain Rolland, Clerambault
  
• “Perpetual instruction is ideally suited to those with malleable constitutions, or those lacking a great deal of confidence in their abilities. The ones pushing the barriers just get down to business without needing their efforts to be officially sanctioned. ”
  Kampuniform in Classical Guitar Forum   08/19/2007 
• “In our time it is not only the market which has its own life and rules over man, but also the development of science and technique.”
  Erich Fromm, The Sane Society, Greenwich, 1955 
• “The only use of things is to be applied to the service of persons.”
  R.H. Tawney, The Acquisitive Society, New York, 1920
• “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”  Upton Sinclair
• “Bildung kommt von Bildschirm und nicht von Buch, sonst hieße es ja Buchung.”
  Dieter Hildebrandt, Wikiquote
• “A tool with a fool is still a tool” Anonym