Seek not to follow in the footsteps of men of old; seek what they sought.
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| — | Matsuo Basho, poet (1644-1694), via Wordsmith.org |
We must accept truth as the authority, instead of authority as the truth.
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| — | Timothy Hazelip (via ancora-imparo) |
So much for all-knowing
This would have been a rather important thing for him to have said in passing at some point or another, one would think.
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
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| — | Leo Tolstoy, novelist and philosopher (1828-1910), via AWAD |
“Pro-Life” Is A Lie, Here Are 10 More Accurate Descriptions They Won’t Like
John Fugelsang said it best: “Only in America can you be pro-death penalty, pro-war, pro-unmanned drone bombs, pro-nuclear weapons, pro-guns, pro-torture, pro-land mines, and still call yourself ‘pro-life.’” Indeed, the term “pro-life” has come to represent a group of people whose values have nothing to do with protecting life, and living people, and more to do with protecting unborn fetuses to the exclusion of all other considerations.
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A common cognitive dissonance amongst Americans.
True Biblical law would be just as bad as Sharia law.
1. All beliefs in whatever realm are theories at some level. (Stephen Schneider)
2. Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong. (Dandemis)
3. Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. (Francis Bacon)
4. Never fall in love with your hypothesis. (Peter Medawar)
5. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories instead of theories to suit facts. (Arthur Conan Doyle)
6. A theory should not attempt to explain all the facts, because some of the facts are wrong. (Francis Crick)
7. The thing that doesn’t fit is the thing that is most interesting. (Richard Feynman)
8. To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact. (Charles Darwin)
9. It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so. (Mark Twain)
10. Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong. (Thomas Jefferson)
11. All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed, second, it is violently opposed, and third, it is accepted as self-evident. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
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Prospero’s Precepts – 11 rules for critical thinking from history’s great minds. (via explore-blog) |
