Quotes and proverbs that provide fuel for thought

1.Noone can see their reflection in running water.It is only in still water that we can see.-Taoist proverb
2.I am not interested in reading or writing what I already think.The whole point of writing as I do is to go forward as a thinker or philosopher.-Lyn Hejinian
3.When people put their ballots in the boxes,they are by that act,inoculated against the feeling that the government is not theirs.They then accept ,in some measure,that its errors are their errors,its aberrations their aberrations,that any revolt will be against themselves.It's a
remarkably shrewd and rather conservative arrangement when one thinks of it.-John Kenneth Galbraith
4.I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.-E.M.Forster,as a small child.