All Generalizations Are False – Mark Twain
“All generalizations are false, including this one.”
Mark Twain
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Loyalty to Petrified Opinion – Mark Twain Quote
“Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.”
Mark Twain
Quote by Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach on Contentment
“To be satisfied with little is hard, to be satisfied with a lot is impossible.”
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: Evil in the Name of Good
“Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good.”
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Neil Postman: Familiar Problems and Unfamiliar Solutions
“People in distress will sometimes prefer a problem that is familiar to a solution that is not.”
Neil Postman
Everything Begins with Questions – Neil Postman
“Everything we know has its origins in questions. Questions, we might say, are the principal intellectual instruments available to human beings.”
Neil Postman
Neil Postman on Media and Communication in America
“Americans no longer talk to each other, they entertain each other. They do not exchange ideas, they exchange images. They do not argue with propositions; they argue with good looks, celebrities and comercials.”
Neil Postman
Albert Einstein Quote on Doubt, Humility, and the True Path to Knowledge
“You imagine that I look back on my life’s work with calm satisfaction. But from nearby it looks quite different. There is not a single concept of which I am convinced that it will stand firm, and I feel uncertain whether I am in general on the right track.”
Albert Einstein
Lincoln Barnett Quote: Why Earth’s Motion Was Never Physically Proven!
“No physical experiment ever proved that the earth actually is in motion.”
Lincoln Barnett
Avro Manhattan on the Hidden Influence of the Vatican in World Politics
“No political event or circumstance can be evaluated without the knowledge of The Vatican’s part in it. And no significant world situation exists in which The Vatican does not play an important explicit or implicit role.”
Avro Manhattan