Learning primary care in a hospital is equivalent to learning forestry in a lumber yard.
-- Hilliard Jason
#MotorMill
Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger.
-- Hermann Goering (Nuremberg Trial)
⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #HermannGoering #Disinformation #Government #History #Patriotism #War
Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.
-- John Ruskin
It is hard to fail but worse never to have tried to succeed.
-- Theodore Roosevelt
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
-- Hermann Hesse
You can never be sure you have a correct problem definition, but don't ever stop trying to get one.
-- Donald Gause & Gerald Weinberg (Are Your Lights On?)
⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #DonaldGauseGeraldWeinberg #ProblemSolving #Technology
The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.
-- James Russell Lowell
In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar.
-- Richard Feynman
RT @wisdom
In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar.
-- Richard Feynman
One could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust that if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in cynicism; instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along that the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness.
-- Hannah Arendt (The Origins of Totalitarianism)
⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #HannahArendt #Cynicism #Lies #Politics #Totalitarianism
The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.
-- R. W. Hamming
The greatest problem with communication -- via any means -- is the illusion that it has been achieved.
-- Judith Huerta (loss prevention manager)
Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke
⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #RainerMariaRilke #Answers #Life #Questions
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundemental resource.
-- John F. Kennedy
In the sufferer let me see only the human being.
-- Maimonides (1135-1204)
Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion.
-- Steven Weinberg
There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. It is 'dead'.
-- Jack Cohen
Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
-- Frank Leahy
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill
⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #WinstonChurchill #Giving #MakingaLiving #Life
Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.
-- Albert Schweitzer
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