 | Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. - Will Durant |
| The only purpose for
which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized
community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. . .Over himself,
over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.
– John Stuart Mill, “On Liberty”
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| Education is the process of moving from cocksure certainty to thoughtful
skepticism. - My Maxim |
| People in groups tend to agree on courses of action which, as individuals,
they know are stupid. - Unknown |
| Those who can't teach - administrate. Those who can't administrate - go
into politics. - H. L. Mencken |
| Faith may be defined briefly as the illogical belief in the occurrence of
the improbable - H. L. Mencken |
| Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth
knowing- H. L Mencken |
| Following the path of least resistance is what makes men and rivers
crooked. - Unknown |
| Honesty is the best policy - there's less competition. - Unknown |
| Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. - Unknown |
| Success is just a matter of luck - ask any failure. - Unknown |
| When policy fails, try thinking. - Unknown (Administrators take note of
this gem) |
| The masses are the opium of religion. - Karl Marx's Corollary |
| Born losers are those who lose in their fantasies. - Unknown |
| Never argue with a fool in public since the audience rarely knows the
difference. - Unknown |
| If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of
them. - Jonathan Swift |
| A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you. - Bert Leston
Taylor |
| Under capitalism, man exploits man - under communism the reverse is true.
- Unknown |
| Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it. - George
Bernard Shaw (This reminds me of Nietzsche's famous quote: "The last
Christian died on the cross") |
| Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going into a
garage makes you a car. - Unknown |
| What men value in this world is not rights but privileges. - H. L. Mencken |
| A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of
nothing. - Oscar Wilde |
| No one speaks more of free enterprise, competition and survival of the fittest
than the man who has just inherited the family fortune. -
Unknown (When a man tells you he got rich through
hard work, ask him whose?) |
| If ignorance is bliss, there should be more happy people. - Unknown |
| I don't want to achieve immortality through my work - I want to achieve it
through not dying. - Woody Allen |
| A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance. - Robert Frost |
| The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands
what sells. - Confucius |
| The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring
liars; the men they detest the most vehemently are those who try to tell
them the truth. - H. L. Mencken |
| An atheist is someone with no invisible means of support. Atheism: a
non-prophet association. - Unknown |
| Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not
committing them? - Jules Feiffer |
| Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds
discuss people. - Unknown |
| Bach almost persuades me to become a Christian. - Roger Fry |
| Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ
from the prejudice of their social environment. - Albert Einstein |
| The optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the
pessimist fears this is true. - James Branch Cabell |
| You can make a better living in the world as a soothsayer than a
truthsayer. - G. C. Litchenberg (The market for astrologers, psychics
and crystal ball gazers is better than it is for philosophers) |
| Life has meaning for anyone who takes an interest in it. - Sidney Hook |
| Anyone who has begun to think clearly places some portion of the world in
jeopardy. - John Dewey |
| The measure of a man is what he does with power. - Pittacus |
| People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks
them. Eric Hoffer |
| Given a thimble full of facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a
tub. - Gordon Allport |
| It is easier to fight for one's principles than it is to live by them. -
Alfred Adler |
| There's a mighty big difference between reasons that sound good and good
sound reasons. - Burton Hillis |
| Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for
continuing to believe as we already do. - James Harvey Robinson |
| Men fear silence as they fear solitude, because both give them a glimpse
of the terror of life's nothingness. - Andre Maorois |
| There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real
labor of thinking. - Joshua Reynolds |
| When all men think alike, no one thinks very much. - Walter Lippmann |
| There are some jobs in which it is impossible for a man to be honest and
virtuous. - Aristotle (Most administrative and managerial jobs qualify
here) |
| In a time of war the first casualty is the truth. - Boake Carter |
| We can have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth
concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both. - Justice Lois
D. Bradeis |
| If you want to get rich by writing, write the sort of material that's read
by people who move their lips while reading to themselves. - Don Marquis |
| As long as the mind clings to belief, it is held in a prison. - J.
Krishnamurti |
| We judge others by their actions, but we judge ourselves by our motives. -
Adlai Stevenson |
| What a man had rather be true, that he more readily believes. - Francis
Bacon |
| The opposite of knowledge is not ignorance, but deceit and fraud. - Jean
Baudrillard |
| When a person has a delusion it is called a psychosis; when several people
share the same delusion, it is called a religion. - Owen Fauvel |
