Yet another from Alan Watts in Cloud-Hidden, Whereabouts Unknown:
A great mind is also considered “profound” because it plumbs the depths of things.
From the introduction to Watts’ The Wisdom of Insecurity:
The strategy Watts follows is not specifically Buddhist but goes back to the most ancient insights of the Vedic seers of India: eliminate what is unreal, and all that remains will be real. It’s a simple but ruthless approach, since there are so many things we accept as real which are in fact merely symbolic: “… thoughts, ideas, and words are ‘coins’ for real things. They are not those things.”
The Secrets of Consulting by Gerald Weinberg:
There’s just no escaping Rudy’s Rutabaga Rule: Once you eliminate your number one problem, number two gets a promotion.