I am 100 percent in favor of the intelligent use of drugs, and 1,000 percent against the thoughtless use of them, whether caffeine or LSD. And drugs are not central to my life.
Timothy LearyRead
My favorite three words in the English language are: ’I don’t know’, because every time I say them, I learn something new.
Interpretation
'I don't know' is a phrase that opens the door to learning and growth.
Timothy Leary's quote emphasizes the importance of acknowledging our limitations in knowledge. By admitting 'I don't know,' we create opportunities for exploration, curiosity, and ultimately, personal growth through the acquisition of new information and experiences.
In practice
In a classroom setting when discussing the importance of asking questions.
I am 100 percent in favor of the intelligent use of drugs, and 1,000 percent against the thoughtless use of them, whether caffeine or LSD. And drugs are not central to my life.
Think for yourself and question authority.
There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I forget the third.
The brain is not a blind, reactive machine, but a complex, sensitive biocomputer that we can program. And if we don't take the responsibility for programming it, then it will be programmed unwittingly by accident or by the social environnement.
My advice to myself and to everyone else, particularly young people, is to turn on, tune in and drop out. By drop out, I mean to detach yourself from involvement in secular, external social games. But the dropping out has to occur internally before it can occur externally. I'm not telling kids just to quit school; I'm not telling people to quit their jobs. That is an inevitable development of the process of turning on and tuning in.
The danger of psychedelic drugs, the danger of mind-opening, the danger of consciousness expansion, the danger of inner discovery is a danger to the establishment.
Foster and polish the warrior spirit while serving in the world; illuminate the path according to your inner light.
Small issues are really just large ones that haven't been accorded the requisite attention.
In the same way as the tree bears the same fruit year after year, but each time new fruit, all lastingly valuable ideas in thinking must always be reborn.
Don’t worry about achieving. Don’t worry about perfection. Just be there each moment as best you can.
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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