What exactly is your 'fair share' of ...
AZQUOTES.COM -- "What exactly is your 'fair share' of what 'someone else' has worked for?" -- Thomas Sowell ...
Wednesday Wisdom
One of the most pathetic ...
IMGUR.COM -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Hazar Imam, 2017: "Let me emphasise a point about the concept of pluralism that is sometimes misunderstood. Connection does not necessarily mean agreement."] ARTICLE: "One of the most pathetic -- and dangerous -- signs of our times is the growing number of individuals and groups who believe that no one could possibly disagree with them for any honest reason." -- Thomas Sowell ...
Journalism is ...
AZQUOTES.COM -- "Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations." -- George Orwell ...
The Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect
FIRSTTHINGS.COM -- Michael Crichton: "The Gell-Mann Amnesia effect works as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well.... You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues.... In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story-and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read with renewed interest as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about far-off Palestine than it was about the story you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know. That is the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect. I'd point out it does not operate in other arenas of life. In ordinary life, if somebody consistently exaggerates or lies ...
Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality ...
AZQUOTES.COM -- "Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle." -- George Washington, First American President ...
He that is without sin among you ...
BOLDOMATIC.COM -- "He that is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone." Bible, John 8:7 ...
Mever give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or ...
IZQUOTES.COM -- "Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy." - Winston Churchill ...
Art, like morality, consists in ...
AZQUOTES.COM -- "Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere." -- Gilbert K. Chesterton ...
Be more concerned with your character than your ...
AZQUOTES.COM -- "Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are." -- John Wooden ...
Adversity does not build character, it ...
AZQUOTES.COM -- "Adversity does not build character, it reveals it." -- James Lane Allen (d. 1925) ...
Whatever you do in life ...
AZQUOTES.COM -- "Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you." -- John Wooden ...
You don't remember what happened. What ...
AZQUOTES.COM -- "You don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened." -- John Green (New York Times best selling author) ...
Once people stop believing in God ...
AZQUOTES.COM -- "Once people stop believing in God, the problem is not that they will believe in nothing; rather, the problem is that they will believe anything." -- C. S. Lewis ...
It seems to me that the great pleasure of human life is not ...
AZQUOTES.COM -- "It seems to me that the great pleasure of human life is not in having an opinion, but rather in learning all the ways you are wrong, and all the nuances you failed to account for, and all the truths that turned out to be not as simple as you once believed. And it seems to me that one of the central pleasures of attending school is that you get to read with really well-informed people who can help welcome you into a complex world stuffed with rich and maddening ambiguity." -- John Green (New York Times best selling author) ...
The remarkable thing about God is that ...
AZQUOTES.COM -- "The remarkable thing about God is that when you fear God, you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God, you fear everything else." -- Oswald Chambers (d. 1917) ...
What's the point in being alive if ...
AZQUOTES.COM -- "What's the point in being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? How very odd, to believe God gave you life, and yet not think that life asks more of you than watching TV." -- John Green (New York Times best selling author) ...
I don't need a church to ...
AZQUOTES.COM -- "I don't need a church to tell me I'm wrong where I already know I'm wrong; I need a Church to tell me I'm wrong where I think I'm right." -- Gilbert K. Chesterton ...
God touches and moves, warns and desires ...
AZQUOTES.COM -- "God touches and moves, warns and desires all equally, and He wants one quite as much as another. The inequality lies in the way in which His touch, His warnings, and His gifts are received." -- Johannes Tauler (14th Century German mystic) ...
It is not inequality which ...
AZQUOTES.COM -- "It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence." -- Voltaire ...
Be a free thinker and ...
AZQUOTES.COM -- "Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in." -- Aristotle ...
If there is no God ...
AZQUOTES.COM -- "If there is no God, everything is permitted." -- Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881; Russian novelist, philosopher, short story writer, essayist, and journalist) ...
Young people have exalted notions ...
AZQUOTES.COM -- "Young people have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things -- and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning -- all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything -- they love too much, hate too much, and the same with everything else." -- Aristotle ...
When men are pure ...
AZQUOTES.COM -- "When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken." -- Benjamin Disraeli, Prime Minister of UK, 1874-1880 ...
The tone and tendency of liberalism ...
AZQUOTES.COM -- "The tone and tendency of liberalism ... is to attack the institutions of the country under the name of reform and to make war on the manners and customs of the people under the pretext of progress." -- Benjamin Disraeli, Prime Minister of UK, 1874-1880 ...
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for ...
AZQUOTES.COM -- "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." -- C. S. Lewis ...
A sign of a culture that has lost its faith ...
AZQUOTES.COM -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Hazar Imam, 1965: "When the faith is broken down everything goes with it: the family, society, the individual, the intelligence."] ARTICLE: "A sign of a culture that has lost its faith: moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse." -- C.S. Lewis ...
When the whole world is running towards a cliff ...
AZQUOTES.COM -- "When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind." -- C. S. Lewis ...
There are three kinds of lies ...
AZQUOTES.COM -- "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." -- Benjamin Disraeli, Prime Minister of UK, 1874-1880 ...
Courage is ...
GOALCAST.COM -- "Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen." -- Winston Churchill ...
The whole aim of practical politics is ...
QUOTESPACE.ORG -- "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." -- H. L. Mencken ...
For every problem ...
AZQUOTES.COM -- "For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong." -- H. L. Mencken ...
We find that whole communities suddenly fix their minds upon one object and go mad in ...
AZQUOTES.COM -- "In reading The History of Nations, we find that, like individuals, they have their whims and their peculiarities, their seasons of excitement and recklessness, when they care not what they do. We find that whole communities suddenly fix their minds upon one object and go mad in its pursuit; that millions of people become simultaneously impressed with one delusion, and run after it, till their attention is caught by some new folly more captivating than the first." -- Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay (1841) ...
Men, it has been well said, think in ...
AZQUOTES.COM -- "Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one." -- Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay (1841) ...
Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more ...
QUOTEFANCY.COM -- "Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it." -- Seneca ...
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is ...
AZQUOTES.COM -- "The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." -- Mahatma Gandhi ...
The object of life is ...
AZQUOTES.COM -- "The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane." -- Marcus Aurelius ...
Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on ...
GOODREADS.COM -- "I want to talk about this notion of consensus science. Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled. Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had. Let's be clear: the work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right. In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus. There is no such thing as consensus science. If it's consensus, it isn't science. If it's science, it isn't consensus. Period." -- Michael Crichton ...
Blind belief in authority is ...
AZQUOTES.COM -- "Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth." -- Albert Einstein ...
We may see the small value God has for riches, by ...
AZQUOTES.COM -- "We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to." -- Alexander Pope ...
It isn't that they can't see the ...
AZQUOTES.COM -- "It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem." -- Gilbert K. Chesterton ...
