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Howard Thurman? Gil Bailie? Apocryphal? Dear Quote Investigator: If you are an altruistic or philanthropic person you face many choices. It is natural to ask, “What does the world need?” Yet, it is essential to maintain commitment and enthusiasm. Hence, you should ask yourself what makes you come alive. This will help you decide what to do. The world needs people who have come alive. Apparently, the renowned religious figure Howard Thurman said something like this. Would you please help me to find a citation? Quote Investigator: In 1995 teacher Gil Bailie published “Violence Unveiled: H...

Irish playwright and poet, 1854–1900 The things of nature do not really belong to us; we should leave them to our children as we have received them. Speech, Ottawa, 12 May 1882 In conclusion, Oscar Wilde died in 1900, and the quotation appeared in the 1936 book “Oscar Wilde Discovers America”. The notes section at the end of the book did not specify the documentation the authors used to verify the quotation. Thus, QI is uncertain how to evaluate the credibility of the attribution to Wilde. Image Notes: Public domain image of the painting “The Equatorial Jungle” by Henri Rousseau ci...

He spoke of “synergy” — which he said means the behavior of whole systems unpredicted by their integral parts — as part of the challenge facing today’s educationists. “One picture, one frame from a motion picture of a caterpillar doesn’t tell you that it’s going to turn into a butterfly,” he said. “And one picture of a butterfly doesn’t give you proof that it can fly ….” In February 1974 “The Charlotte Observer” of North Carolina presented a group of Fuller’s quotations from a recent series of lectures. The inventor used another phrasing to express his notion:...

A separate article about Simon’s quotation is available here. In 1972 philosopher and AI critic Hubert L. Dreyfus published “What Computers Can’t Do: A Critique of Artificial Reason”, and he referred to Minsky’s prediction: Is there, thus, any reason to be confident that these programs are approaching the “superior heuristics for managing their knowledge structure” which Minsky believed human beings must have; or, as Minsky claims in another of his books, that within a generation . . . few compartments of intellect will remain outside the machine’s realm—the problem of crea...

Woolf believed that printing the contents of a lecture was superior to speaking it: . . . why continue an obsolete custom which not merely wastes time and temper, but incites the most debased of human passions— vanity, ostentation, self-assertion, and the desire to convert? Why encourage your elders to turn themselves into prigs and prophets . . . In 2005 author and former professor Annis Pratt published “How I Taught Values” in the journal “Feminist Teacher”, and she referenced the words of Virginia Woolf: Chief among the professorial behaviors she deplores is lecturing, which sh...