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General_Aphorisms
Lies and Statistics
“There are three kinds of lies: Lies, damned lies, and statistics.”
- Source: Not clearly identified. Mark Twain published an article entitled “Chapters from My Autobiography” published 1906-09-07 in the magazine North American Review in which he states that some attributed the phrase to British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli. See https://www.gutenberg.org
/files /19987 /19987.txt.
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Octavia_E_Butler
Choose Your Leaders
“Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be lied to. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.”
- Source: Written by Octavia E. Butler in her book entitled “Parable of the Talents”. Chapter 11. First published by Seven Stories Press, New York, NY, in 1998. ISBN-13: 978-1-888363-81-4.
We Say
“Beware: All too often, we say what we hear others say. We think what we’re told that we think. We see what we’re permitted to see. Worse! We see what we’re told that we see. Repetition and pride are the keys to this. To hear and to see even an obvious lie again and again and again may be to say it, almost by reflex then to defend it because we’ve said it and at last to embrace it because we’ve defended it and because we cannot admit that we’ve embraced and defended an obvious lie. Thus, without thought, without intent, we make mere echoes of ourselves — and we say what we hear others say.”
- Source: Written by Octavia E. Butler in her book entitled “Parable of the Talents”. Chapter 18. First published by Seven Stories Press, New York, NY, in 1998. ISBN-13: 978-1-888363-81-4.
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Robert_Heinlein
Reason
“Reason is poor propaganda when opposed by the yammering, unceasing lies of shrewd and evil and self-serving men. The little man has no way to judge and the shoddy lies are packaged more attractively. There is no way to offer color to a colorblind man, nor is there any way for us to give the man of imperfect brain the canny skill to distinguish a lie from a truth.”
- Source: Written by Robert A. Heinlein in the magazine series “Gulf” published in 1949-11 and 1949-12 issues of Astounding Science Fiction magazine. Page 62. Character: Dr. Baldwin. Online at https://www.luminist.org/archives/SF/AST.htm retrieved 2024-05-05.
- Keywords: Reason_quotes Poor_quotes Propaganda_quotes Oppose_quotes Yammer_quotes Unceasing_quotes Lie_quotes Shrewd_quotes Evil_quotes Self-serving_quotes Little_quotes Man_quotes Way_quotes Judge_quotes Shoddy_quotes Package_quotes Attractive_quotes Offer_quotes Color_quotes Colorblind_quotes Give_quotes Imperfect_quotes Brain_quotes Canny_quotes Skill_quotes Distinguish_quotes Truth_quotes
Heraclitus
Cheaters
“The most approved of those who are of repute knows how to cheat. Nevertheless, justice will catch the makers and witnesses of lies.”
- Source: Heraclitus from the book “The Fragments of the work of Heraclitus of Ephesus on Nature” translated by G. T. W. Patrick, published in 1889 by N. Murray of Baltimore, Maryland. Fragment CXVIII. Page 111. Fragment originally written by Heraclitus circa 475 BCE.
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Aldous_Huxley
Protect Our Minds
“We protect our minds by an elaborate system of abstractions, ambiguities, metaphors and similes from the reality we do not wish to know too clearly; we lie to ourselves, in order that we may still have the excuse of ignorance, the alibi of stupidity and incomprehension, possessing which we can continue with a good conscience to commit and tolerate the most monstrous crimes.”
- Source: Aldous Huxley (1936). An essay entitled Words and Behavior within the book The Olive Tree and Other Essays, published by Harper and Brothers, ASIN: B08VNTBLY4.
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Malcolm_McIlroy
Top and Bottom
“Talking about where one starts is, I think, perhaps a slight lie. One starts in fact with the grand conception, including the top and the bottom.”
- Source: Malcolm Douglas McIlroy in a report entitled Software Engineering: Report of a Conference Sponsored by the NATO Science Committee. Chaired by Friedrich Ludwig Bauer. Edited by P. Naur; B. Randell. Conference held 1968-10-07 through 1968-10-11 in Garmisch, Germany. OCLC: 35337842. See http://homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk/brian.randell/NATO/index.html ; http://homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk/brian.randell/NATO/nato1968.PDF ; https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1102020 ; https://books.google.com/books/about/Software_engineering.html?id=Uc9QAAAAYAAJ . Page 29.
T_H_White
Learning Cure for Sadness
“‘The best thing for being sad,’ replied Merlyn, beginning to puff and blow, ‘is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the thing for you. Look at what a lot of things there are to learn — pure science, the only purity there is. You can learn astronomy in a lifetime, natural history in three, literature in six. And then, after you have exhausted a milliard lifetimes in biology and medicine and theocriticism and geography and history and economics — why, you can start to make a cartwheel out of the appropriate wood, or spend fifty years learning to begin to learn to beat your adversary at fencing. After that you can start again on mathematics, until it is time to learn to plough.’”
- Source: White, T. H. (2011). The Once and Future King | 1939. New York, NY: Penguin. ISBN 9781101657546.
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