Never Stop Re-Thinking The Answer

“Once you’ve decided that something’s absolutely true, you’ve closed your mind on it, and a closed mind doesn’t go anywhere. Question everything. That’s what education’s all about.”

*David Eddings

 

What I Tell My Ethics Students

“It’s the questions we can’t answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he’ll look for his own answers.”

~ Patrick Rothfuss

Nose in the Sand

I might show facts as plain as day:

but, since your eyes are blind, you’d say,

“Where? What?”

and turn away.

**Christina Rossetti

Or At What Level

“Stood Up” by NunoCanha

“The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.”

~ BF Skinner

Can You Convert Someone to Intelligent Thought?

“Evil isn’t the real threat to the world. Stupid is just as destructive as Evil, maybe more so, and it’s a hell of a lot more common. What we really need is a crusade against Stupid. That might actually make a difference.” 

**Jim Butcher

To Choose or Not to Choose

“Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.”

**Napoleon

Just Leave A Door Open

“If you’re too open-minded; your brains will fall out.” 

**Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Wisdom is Always Learning

“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.” 

**Voltaire

Daily Motto

“Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it. I am going to use all my energies to develop myself, to expand my heart out to others; to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings. I am going to have kind thoughts towards others, I am not going to get angry or think badly about others. I am going to benefit others as much as I can.” 

**Dalai Lama XIV

The Power of A Belief

“No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.”

**Victor Hugo