The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
Bergson, H.
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Bergson, H. (translation: Ecrits et paroles, Message au Congrès Descartes)
Prévoir consiste à projeter dans l'avenir ce qu'on a perçu dans le passé.
Bergson, H.
Nous tendons instinctivement à solidifier nos impressions, pour les exprimer par le langage.
Bergson, H. (Essai sur les données immédiates de la conscience)
Consciousness allows you the capacity to plan.
Edelman, G.
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
Einstein, A.
Those who ignore the lessons of history are bound to repeat them.
Marx, K. (translation: Manifeste du parti communiste)
Nothing comes to us than falsified or corrupted by our senses.
Montaigne, M. (translation: Les essais)
False absolutes immobilize in conceptual mud.
Mugur-Schächter, M. (translation: Sur le tissage des connaissances - Ed. Hermes science)
Science without conscience is the death of the soul.
Rabelais, F. (translation: Pantagruel)
Method
Methodology without epistemology is only ruin of the soul.
Avenier, M.-J. (translation: Raisonnances - Le Libellio d’AEGIS Vol. 7, n° 1 – Printemps 2011 pp.39-52)
Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.
Bergson, H.
Bureaucracy is the death of any achievement.
Einstein, A.
"People are unable to get out of the net of conventional concepts and they only know wriggle inside grotesquely."
Einstein, A. (translation: Erwin Schrödinger, Philosophie et Naissance de la mécanique quantique, p311)
Excellence born out of practice.
Kandel, E. (translation: A la recherche de la mémoire - Ed. Odile Jacob)
The best people and organizations have the attitude of wisdom:
The courage to act on what they know right now and the humility to change course when they find better evidence.
Sutton, R.
The best single question for testing an organization's character is: What happens when people make mistakes?
Sutton, R.
We are what our acts made us.
Massie, A. (translation: Auguste Mémoire d’un Empereur, Ed. Flammarion)
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