Holy war inflames religion into arrogance.
-- Kevin Phillips (American Theocracy)
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Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel.
-- William Shakespeare (King Lear)
In any dispute the intensity of feeling is inversely proportional to the value of the issues at stake.
-- Wallace Stanley Sayre (Sayre's Law)
If you wish to gain knowledge of the forms of things, begin with the detail and only move from one detail to another when you have fixed the first firmly in your memory and become well acquainted with it.
-- Leonardo da Vinci
The introduction of new technology is always disruptive to old markets, and particularly to those copyright owners whose works are sold through well-established distribution mechanisms. History has shown that time and market forces often provide equilibrium in balancing interests, whether the new technology be a player piano, a copier, a tape recorder, a video recorder, a personal computer, a karaoke machine or an MP3 player.
-- Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (peer-to-peer file-sharing case)
Anyone can become angry. That is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way -- that is not easy.
-- Aristotle
The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late.
-- Seymour Cray
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
Memory is the residue of thought, so if you want students to remember something you have to get them to think about it.
-- Daniel T. Willingham (What Will Improve a Student's Memory?)
#Wisdom #Quotes #DanielTWillingham #Education #Memory #Learning
What then is the education to be? ...gymnastic for the body and music for the mind.
-- Plato
If a system becomes weak enough and the opposition divided enough, if the ruling order is corrupt enough and people are angry enough, extremists can suddenly step into the center, where no one expects them. And after that it can take decades to undo the damage.
-- Kontra (@counternotions)
#Wisdom #Quotes #Kontra #Authoritarianism #Corruption #Politics
You grow up on the day you have your first real laugh at yourself.
-- Ethel Barrymore
The chief difference between my day and now is that, though the ignorance may be commensurate, I do not sense the same embarrassment about it.
-- Joseph Epstein
Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind.
-- Norman Borlaug
