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To Be Considered Wise Is Not So Bad, Although It Ordinarily Requires That We Go A Good Distance Out Of Tow
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To be considered wise is not so bad, although it ordinarily requires that
we go a good distance out of town, so that those who think of us as wise do
not have the opportunity to learn the ordinary truth of the matter.
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We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow; Our wiser sons, no doubt, will think us so. -- Pope
As ceremony is the invention of wise men to keep fools at a distance, so good breeding is an expedient to make fools and wise men equal.
-- Steele...
Hear me out. Linux is Microsoft's main competition right now.
Because of this we are forcing them to "innovate", something they would usually avoid....
People think they don't have to learn, Because there is so much information available.
But knowledge is more than possessing information....
Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves?
Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance....
No people do so much harm as those who go about doing good. -- Mandell Creighton (1843-1901)
THEOSOPHY, n. An ancient faith having all the certitude of religion and all the mystery of science.
The modern Theosophist holds, with the Buddhists, that we live an incalculable number of times on this earth, in as many several bodies, because one life is not long enough for our complete spiritual developme...
Although a wise man might urge that one should suffer fools gladly, this should not be construed as license for any fool to demand that one do so.
-- Frederic William Kanto...
Just as most issues are seldom black or white, so are most good solutions seldom black or white.
Beware of the solution that requires one side to be totally the loser and the other side to be totally the winner....