“It has been my observation that one of the prices of giving people freedom of choice… is that sometimes, they make the wrong choice.”
Category: Quotes
Quote of the Day: What Is Truth?
“Furthermore, truth is anything that corresponds to reality. Truth doesn’t yield to the size and the strength of the latest lobby group. Truth isn’t a matter of preference or opinion. Rather, truth is true even if everyone denies it, just as a lie is a lie if everyone affirms it.
Finally, truth is essential to a realistic worldview. When sophistry, sensationalism, and superstition attack truth, our view of reality becomes seriously skewed. The death of truth spells the death of civilization. However, as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn once said, ‘One word of truth outweighs the entire world.’”
sophistry
def. subtly deceptive reasoning or argumentation
sensationalism
def. 1: empiricism that limits experience as a source of knowledge to sensation or sense perceptions, 2: the use or effect of sensational subject matter or treatment
superstition
def. 1a : a belief or practice resulting from ignorance, fear of the unknown, trust in magic or chance, or a false conception of causation, b : an irrational abject attitude of mind toward the supernatural, nature, or God resulting from superstition, 2: a notion maintained despite evidence to the contrary
Quote of the Day: About Dreams
“Dreams tell me there is no better way, than to see other people, enjoy and stay.”
Quote of the Day: Sacredness in Tears
“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.”
Quote of the Day: We’re Going To Stumble
“We’re going to stumble, make mistakes, I’m sure more than a few before we find our footing, but we’re going to learn from those mistakes. That’s what being human is all about.”
Quote of the Day: All People Have A Calling
“All people have a calling. Its a crime to use the gifts for something else or waste them to nothingness.”
21. Revelation (by Robert Frost)
“WE make ourselves a place apart
Behind light words that tease and flout,
But oh, the agitated heart
Till someone find us really out.’Tis pity if the case require
(Or so we say) that in the end
We speak the literal to inspire
The understanding of a friend.But so with all, from babes that play
At hide-and-seek to God afar,
So all who hide too well away
Must speak and tell us where they are. ”
Quote of the Day: Time Is A Companion
“Someone once told me that time was a predator that stalked us all our lives. I rather believe that time is a companion who goes with us on the journey and reminds us to cherish every moment, because it will never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we’ve lived.”
Quote of the Day: Dangerous Peace
“Peace in a dark world is not even worth thinking about as an imaginary ideal in a fantastical perfect utopia. Peace, given any thought, will grow from a small kernel of light to a glimmer of hope to a full blown dream. To be an idealist in a dark world is dangerous. You upset the wrong people with your hope, you die. You think all are peaceful, you die. You defy norms and to promote peace become a pacifist and do not fight, you die. Do not become an idealist in a dark world.”
Quote of the Day: Know History
“If you don’t know history, then you don’t know anything. You are a leaf that doesn’t know it is part of a tree. ”
