“Sacred cows make the best hamburger.” ~att. to Mark Twain
If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you.
The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.
Rudyard Kipling
@eurocelticyankee,
Or, If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, perhaps you've misunderstood the situation.
"...belief has a second edge. If there are ten thousand medieval peasants who create vampires by believing them real, there may be one - probably a child - who will imagine the stake necessary to kill it. But a stake is only stupid wood; the mind is the mallet which drives it home."
- Stephen King
“The difference between listening and pretending to listen, I discovered, is enormous. One is fluid, the other is rigid. One is alive, the other is stuffed. Eventually, I found a radical way of thinking about listening. Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you. When I’m willing to let them change me, something happens between us that’s more interesting than a pair of dueling monologues.”
― Alan Alda, Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: And Other Things I've Learned
I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.
Voltaire
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
George Bernard Shaw
“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”
― Daniel J. Boorstin, The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself
“I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.”
― Mark Twain
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
Aristotle
@eurocelticyankee,
Then, there is no democracy, these days.
@Letty,
Quote:I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.
Easy to say with no danger of having a dagger stuck in the throat.
@edgarblythe,
Quote:“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”
That's rubbish as well. The illusion of knowledge has led to better knowledge. Alchemy for example. The Phlogiston theory.
@spendius,
You forgot to add "the wisdom of spendi."
@edgarblythe,
If the illusion of knowledge is of no value research is pointless.
@edgarblythe,
edgarblythe wrote:
“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”
― Daniel J. Boorstin, The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself
Seen that so many times on this forum.
@Wilso,
The easiest way known to man to pose as intelligent is to accuse others of being ignorant. Just as the easiest way to pose as a realist is to accuse others of having illusions.
It's so easy Wilso that even you can do it.
Let me know when you want to get real.
“A very little key will open a very heavy door.”
― Charles Dickens, Hunted Down
