This is a great quote. I know that sometimes we hear something all our lives, never questioning, just believeing it's so, because we have always heard it. But when we finally study, look and search for the truth, we sometimes find ourselves free from preju...
Able to entertain and idea without condemning it out of hand is hard. Our prejudices show here. How often do I just listen, then think it over, then respond? Not as often as I jump to a conclusion. I am working on that. Knowing and doing are ...
Hi, blue jeweled maiden. A wise person said that is hard not to try to impose the personal point of view to others. Another wise people completed: I agree, but it feels so nice to know that someone agrees with you!
My daily mantra: "you do not have to agree with me, but you do need to consider...." Students take everything so literally. I need to use Aristotle, I think. Also, some of the most educated and enlightened (somehow those seem the same to me) pe...
Yes, thank you: I enjoyed discovering the author too;'brings me back to my school bench in France, and my classes with my favourite teacher then: my philosophy teacher, Mt Henriet. ( Homage to you, wherever you are now )Welcome; I look forward to read more about what ...
Thank you Mirluinwen for posting this. I like reading the first parts of the quotes on the main page, not knowing who the author is, then reading the full quote, pondering it all the while, then get that "ah ha" moment when I see at last who the author is. Always a surpr...
Mirluinwen haha. Wow- I'm a Tolkien nerd. And in elvish it means blue jeweled maiden, which I picked because Saphire is my birthstone. :D My real name is Carolina.
