And isn’t it a bad thing to be deceived about the truth, and a good thing to know what the truth is? For I assume that by knowing the truth you mean knowing things as they really are. Truthfulness. He will never willingly tolerate an untruth, but will hate it as much as he loves [...]
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Truth Quotes
Posted: August 19, 2010 by Mike Hubbartt in Quips, Quotes, & ClichesTags: Plato, quotes on truth
Stupidity Quotes
Posted: August 4, 2010 by Mike Hubbartt in Quips, Quotes, & ClichesTags: Japanese quotes, stupidity
An Old Japanese Proverb: “Baka ni tsukeru kusuri wa nai” (There is no medicine that cures stupidity.)
Harry {doc} Babad quotes
Posted: August 4, 2010 by docbabad in Quips, Quotes, & ClichesTags: doc Babad, Harry Babad quotes
A Technology Reviewers Code: I’m not being picky, vengeful or ornery – It’s just that I am a “closet” iconoclast and bad science pushes my buttons, … and … Of course it’s in my “genes.” Second Law of Recipe Collection Management: Recipe collection sizes will double every 18 months. A consequence the law is that [...]
Thucydides Quote – Scholars and Warriors
Posted: August 4, 2010 by docbabad in Quips, Quotes, & ClichesTags: Peloponnesian War, quotes about scholars and warriors
“The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools.” – Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War (ca 410 BCE)
Mark Twain Quote – Illusions
Posted: August 4, 2010 by docbabad in Quips, Quotes, & ClichesTags: Mark Twain
“Don’t part with your illusions. When the are gone, you may still exist But you have ceased to live”
Albert Einstein Quotes – God does not play dice
Posted: August 4, 2010 by Mike Hubbartt in Quips, Quotes, & ClichesTags: Albert Einstein, Einstein quotes
From Albert Einstein, mathematician, logician and philosopher. “God does not play dice with the universe” “God is subtle, but he is not malicious” “Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” “Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.”