Posted by Cam W. on May 15, 2002, at 17:10:18
In reply to Wisdom..., posted by Phil on May 14, 2002, at 19:14:36
"We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom." - Michel de Montaigne
"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened." - Winston Churchill
"A thing is not necessarily true just because someone dies for it." - Oscar Wilde
"Many people would rather die than think. In fact, they do." - Bertrand Russell
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." - Philip K. Dick
"Too much doubt is better than too much credulity." - Robert G. Ingersoll
"The value of an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it." - Oscar Wilde
"Practically perfect people never permit sentiment to muddle their thinking." - Mary Poppins
"Life results from the non-random survival of randomly varying replicators. It is grindingly, creakingly, crashingly obvious that if Darwinism was really a theory of chance, it could not work." - Richard Dawkins
" ...[People say] Western medicine doesn't work; I'm sorry, we cured polio. What more do you want? Your herbalism has done jack; we cured polio. And guess what? It cures polio even if you don't believe in it." - Penn Jillette
"The fundamental cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt." Bertrand Russell
"Do not attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by stupidity." - H.L. Mencken
"There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell 'em." - Louie Armstrong
"There is nothing so passionate as a vested interest disguised as an intellectual conviction." - Sean O'Casey
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein
"Desire for approval and recognition is a healthy motive, but the desire to be acknowledged as better, stronger, or more intelligent than a fellow being or fellow scholar easily leads to an excessively egoistic psychological adjustment, which may become injurious for the individual and for the community." - Albert Einstein
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