— David M. Whalen
Category: Knowledge
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity
— Hanlon’s Razor
You have to realize, your thoughts are not really your own thoughts. They percolate in from other places and from other people
— Robert Shiller “Some people are more impressionable than others. But everyone is a product of the experiences they’ve had, the people they’ve met, the people they’ve observed, the people they’ve read about, and the people around them at any given moment who are shaping their behaviors in good, bad, and ugly ways. That alone
A belief is not dangerous until it turns absolute
— Dee Hock
When you believe in things
That you don’t understand,
Then you suffer,
— Stevie Wonder from Superstition
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence
— John Adams