October 18, 2004

Quotes:

What do I think?

    By Jack Grant

Why repeat what these people said so well?

Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows.
   -David T. Wolf

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
   -Edith Sitwell

At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas.
   -Aldous Huxley

Seek simplicity, and distrust it.
   -Alfred North Whitehead

Posted by Jack Grant at 11:10 on 18 October 2004
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