Kenneth Boulding

"The most important thing we carry with us is our image of who we are."

"Society is organized around energy flows."

"A learned man is an idler who kills time by study."

"The future is fundamentally unpredictable and therefore we must be humble about our plans."

"In any conflict situation, each party believes itself to be in the right."

"Music is a mirror in which we see ourselves."

"The paradox of education is that as we grow in knowledge, we grow in ignorance."

"Behavior is a function of the image."

"We become what we think about."

"The love of money is the root of much of the world's problems."

"Poverty is a relative concept; it depends on what others have."

"The quality of decision-making depends on the quality of information."

"Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense experience correspond to some kind of stable order."

"We inherit the past; we do not escape it."

"Truth is like a lion; it does not need to be defended."

"The only way to predict the future is to understand the past."

"Imagination is the beginning of creation."

"The great question is not whether we can control our future, but whether we can imagine it."

"A system is only as healthy as its feedback mechanisms."

"The enemy of art is rationality without imagination."

"Character is what emerges when nobody is watching."

"The measure of civilization is in its ability to care for the vulnerable."

"Nothing fails like success because we think we have solved the problem."

"The spirit of man is more important than mere achievement."

"Time is the one thing that cannot be manufactured, stored, or reclaimed."

"The test of a system's stability is whether small disturbances lead to larger ones."

"We are all participants in creating the future through our choices today."

"Health is not merely the absence of disease but a state of wholeness."

"The greatest adventure is in the realm of the mind."

"Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that crushed it."