24 January 2009

Thoughts for Saturday

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
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Beware how you take away hope from any human being.
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It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than the investigation of the obscure.
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Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

2 comments:

LomaAlta said...

Nice quotes and right on. Thanks.

Rev. Paul said...

You're welcome. I found a good one by Theodore Roosevelt which I want to use; it's about not blindly trusting the President. I'm sure it will invite unwanted attention, but what the heck. TR said it, and he was a darn sight better leader than most we've had since Reagan.