Sunday, December 4, 2005

Quotes and Commentary 2

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
-- Mark Twain

Hmm, did he know Pat Robertson?

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
-- Chinese Proverb

In other words, when you "assume", you make and ASS out of U and ME.

It is hard to begin to move when you don't know where you are moving, how to move, or if you are going to get there.
-- Peter Novio Zarlenga


Kind of reminds me of my employment situation and the need of making a change.

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins


Thank a liberal for the march of human progress.

There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.'
-- Frederick L Collins

Hot damn, here I am!

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan, English Social History (1942)

Too many schools teach children what to think, rather than how to think. It's the same as the problem of either giving a man a fish or teaching him how to fish.

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