Quotes
January 20, 2009 - The End of an Error - The Nattering Naybob
Often wrong, but never in doubt - Bill Fleckenstein
It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future. - Yogi Berra
When times are tough and crisis left undecreed
Seeing through fault and polyannish idealism is societies need.
Neither a half blind pessimist nor optimist can fathom the deed
To decipher the braille of truth, thou must be a realist indeed. - The Nattering Naybob
Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained. - Gandhi
People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up. - George RR Martin - Clash of Kings
Definition of paranoid: one who is in possession of all the facts. - William S. Burroughs
Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact. - Aristotle
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification. - Martin H. Fischer
The possession of facts is knowledge, the use of them is wisdom. - Thomas Jefferson
It is better to get wisdom than gold, and to choose understanding rather than silver! - Proverbs 16:16
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. - William Bruce Cameron
What we know is not much. What we do not know is immense. - Pierre Simon LaPlace
Possessed of no special talent, only passionate curiosity. - Paraphrased from an Einstein letter
Did you think to kill me? There's no flesh and blood within this cloak to kill. There is only an idea. And ideas are bulletproof. - 1989 graphic comic - V for Vendetta
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come. [in Nation 15 April 1943] - Victor Hugo
A stand can be made against invasion by an army; no stand can be made against invasion by an idea.
[Histoire d'un Crime (written 1851-2, published 1877) pt. 5, sect. 10] - Victor Hugo
Ideas cannot be killed. - 1840 - Domingo F. Sarmiento
To your request of my opinion of the manner in which a newspaper should be conducted, so as to be most useful, I should answer, "by restraining it to true facts and sound principles only." Yet I fear such a paper would find few subscribers. It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of its benefits, than is done by its abandoned prostitution to falsehood. Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent of this state of misinformation is known only to those who are in situations to confront facts within their knowledge with the lies of the day. . . . I will add, that the man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them; inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors. He who reads nothing will still learn the great facts, and the details are all false. - Thomas Jefferson - Letter to John Norvell (11 June 1807).
A patriot is loyal to his country at all times and to the government when it deserves it. - Mark Twain
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. - Edward Abbey
Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods. - H. L. Mencken
The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all, it is to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality. - H.L. Mencken
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. - H.L. Mencken
There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million can diagnose. - From The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes
If the American people ever allow banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property, until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers occupied. The issuing of money should be taken from the banks and restored to Congress and the people to whom it belongs. - Thomas Jefferson.
Often wrong, but never in doubt - Bill Fleckenstein
It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future. - Yogi Berra
When times are tough and crisis left undecreed
Seeing through fault and polyannish idealism is societies need.
Neither a half blind pessimist nor optimist can fathom the deed
To decipher the braille of truth, thou must be a realist indeed. - The Nattering Naybob
Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained. - Gandhi
People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up. - George RR Martin - Clash of Kings
Definition of paranoid: one who is in possession of all the facts. - William S. Burroughs
Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact. - Aristotle
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification. - Martin H. Fischer
The possession of facts is knowledge, the use of them is wisdom. - Thomas Jefferson
It is better to get wisdom than gold, and to choose understanding rather than silver! - Proverbs 16:16
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. - William Bruce Cameron
What we know is not much. What we do not know is immense. - Pierre Simon LaPlace
Possessed of no special talent, only passionate curiosity. - Paraphrased from an Einstein letter
Did you think to kill me? There's no flesh and blood within this cloak to kill. There is only an idea. And ideas are bulletproof. - 1989 graphic comic - V for Vendetta
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come. [in Nation 15 April 1943] - Victor Hugo
A stand can be made against invasion by an army; no stand can be made against invasion by an idea.
[Histoire d'un Crime (written 1851-2, published 1877) pt. 5, sect. 10] - Victor Hugo
Ideas cannot be killed. - 1840 - Domingo F. Sarmiento
To your request of my opinion of the manner in which a newspaper should be conducted, so as to be most useful, I should answer, "by restraining it to true facts and sound principles only." Yet I fear such a paper would find few subscribers. It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of its benefits, than is done by its abandoned prostitution to falsehood. Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent of this state of misinformation is known only to those who are in situations to confront facts within their knowledge with the lies of the day. . . . I will add, that the man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them; inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors. He who reads nothing will still learn the great facts, and the details are all false. - Thomas Jefferson - Letter to John Norvell (11 June 1807).
A patriot is loyal to his country at all times and to the government when it deserves it. - Mark Twain
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. - Edward Abbey
Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods. - H. L. Mencken
The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all, it is to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality. - H.L. Mencken
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. - H.L. Mencken
There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million can diagnose. - From The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes
If the American people ever allow banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property, until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers occupied. The issuing of money should be taken from the banks and restored to Congress and the people to whom it belongs. - Thomas Jefferson.
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