Where Ruts Have Not Yet Been Worn,

The Most Refined Skills Of Color Printing, The Intricate Techniques Of Wide-angle Photography, Provide Us Pictures Of Trivia Bigger And More Real Than Life. We Forget That We See Trivia And Notice Only That The Reproduction Is So Good. Man Fulfils His Dream And By Photographic Magic Produces A Precise Image Of The Grand Canyon. The Result Is Not That He Adores Nature Or Beauty The More. Instead He Adores His Camera - And Himself.

I Have Observed That The World Has Suffered Far Less From Ignorance Than From Pretensions To Knowledge. It Is Not Skeptics Or Explorers But Fanatics And Ideologues Who Menace Decency And Progress. No Agnostic Ever Burned Anyone At The Stake Or Tortured A Pagan, A Heretic, Or An Unbeliever.

Education Is Learning What You Didn't Even Know You Didn't Know.

We Suffer Primarily Not From Our Vices Or Our Weaknesses, But From Our Illusions. We Are Haunted, Not By Reality, But By Those Images We Have Put In Their Place.

Beware Of Charisma . . . Representative Men; Was Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1850 Phrase For The Great Men In A Democracy . . . Is There Some Common Quality Among These Representative Men Who Have Been Most Successful As Our Leaders? I Call It The Need To Be Authentic-or, As Our Dictionaries Tell Us, Conforming To Fact And Therefore Worthy Of Trust, Reliance Or Belief. While The Charismatic Has An Uncanny Outside Source Of Strength, The Authentic Is Strong Because He Is What He Seems To Be.