black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.

Related Topics

Aim Alone Behave Endure Failure High Honorably Prepare Time

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

It’s always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That’s just in human relationships.
E. O. WILSON

Always Been Belief Belong Great Human People Relationship Superior Survival Tribe Value
Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the ‘environmentalist’ view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.
E. O. WILSON

Cail Cease Come Environment Perhaps Time View
The essence of humanity’s spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?
E. O. WILSON

Accept Another Dilemma Discover Essence Evolve Genitival Humanity One Spiritual Truth
A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.
E. O. WILSON

Accept Behaviour Choice Corrosive Economic Environmental Ethic Faustian Growth New Ourselves Population Price Risky Stock Unavoidable Upon Very
I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of a novel has always been in the back of my mind.
E. O. WILSON

Always Back Carrer Mind New Point Reach Ready Something Write
We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It’s about conflicts between creation stories.
E. O. WILSON

Among Conflict Consequence Creation Ought People Difference Recognize Story Strife
If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
E. O. WILSON

Anything Desire History Passion Same Science Taight Truth
It’s obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life – for 8 billion or more people – without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.
E. O. WILSON

Attempt Better Bring Century Come Entirely Environment Face Humanity Key Obvious Problem Quality Wrecking
We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
E. O. WILSON

Biodiversity Come Every Humanity Learn Men Preserve Priceless Scrap Understand Use
I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
E. O. WILSON

Believe Consequence Dogma Evolution Religious Tend
Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
E. O. WILSON

Environment Living Really Sustain Us
Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we’re hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
E. O. WILSON

Adaption Belief Evolved Hard Itself Religion Tribalistic Wired
If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
E. O. WILSON

Chaos Collapse Environment Insect Vanish
When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
E. O. WILSON

All Ant Bird One Seen Them Tree When
Persist! The world needs all you can give.
E. O. WILSON

All Can Give Need Persist World You
The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can.
E. O. WILSON

Century Challenge Economic Major Majority Much Planet Save Situation

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes