#ourselves

We are running ourselves into a damaged earth. But I am optimistic. I believe that we can change; we must change. As a human race, we are very young and quite primitive. The sooner we learn the greatness of humanity the better off we will all be. ↗

— John Astin

#believe #better #better off #change #damaged

In truth, the only restrictions on our capacity to astonish ourselves and each other are imposed by our own minds. ↗

— David Blaine

#capacity #each #imposed #minds #only

Why do we do basic research? To learn about ourselves. ↗

— Walter Gilbert

#basic #basic research #learn #ourselves #research

How many of you have broken no laws this month? That's the kind of society I want to build. I want a guarantee - with physics and mathematics, not with laws - that we can give ourselves real privacy of personal communications. ↗

— John Gilmore

#build #communications #give #guarantee #how

We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#how #intelligent #intelligent life #into #life

War is not the quintessential emergency in which man has to prove himself, as my generation learned at its school desks in the days of the Kaiser; rather, peace is the emergency in which we all have to prove ourselves. ↗

— Gustav Heinemann

#desks #emergency #generation #himself #learned

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. ↗

— Edmund Hillary

#mountain #ourselves

Not only does travel give us a new system of reckoning, it also brings to the fore unknown aspects of our own self. Our consciousness being broadened and enriched, we shall judge ourselves more correctly. ↗

— Ella Maillart

#aspects #being #brings #broadened #consciousness

We need a place in which we may flourish and be ourselves. ↗

— Timothy Radcliffe

#may #need #ourselves #place #which

Long ago we conquered our passions looking at ourselves in the mirror of eternity. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #eternity #literature #literature-quotes #long-ago