Honor the Virtuous First – Then Save the Bad

“Take care lest perchance you fall into the mistake of thinking to gain more by being merciful than by being just; for to pardon him too easily that has transgressed is to wrong him that transgresses not.” ~ Baldassarre Castiglione

Tails!

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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

 

Appropriate Listening

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

Size of the Weakness Makes no Difference

“In war, the soldier who moves back 50 steps has no right to laugh at the one who moves back 100 steps.” – Chinese Saying

And it Really, Really Sucks

Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you’re wrong.

~ Anonymous

So Move Already!

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
~ Will Rogers

You’re so Vain, You probably think this quote is about you

Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired:  even I who write this, and you who read this.

**Blaise Pascal

True That

Gossip needn’t be false to be evil — there’s a lot of truth that shouldn’t be passed around.

~Frank A. Clark