Quote of the Day (12/17/09) (Thinking Week)

Thought is born of failure. When action satisfies there is no residue to hold the attention; to think is to confess a lack of adjustment which we must stop to consider. Only when the human organism fails to achieve an adequate response to its situation is there material for the processes of thought, and the greater the failure the more searching they become.
--L.L. Whyte, The Next Development in Man