Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge. | |
— Mark Twain | |
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On This Day In: | |
2022 | The Edge Of Today |
2021 | Why I’m Wrinkled With Age |
Is There A Generic Available? | |
2020 | I Feel Noblesse Oblige |
2019 | Live For Something |
2018 | My Dogs Beat ‘Em Up |
Is Your Sky Falling? | |
2017 | Unseen Here, Too |
2016 | Criticized Anyway |
2015 | Sometimes The Truth Hurts |
2014 | All Agreed, Say “Aye” |
2013 | Two Books, Two Movies |
Just Because | |
2012 | God’s Requirements |
2011 | Greater Purity |
Posts Tagged ‘Knowledge’
Reveal And Conceal
Posted in Education, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Education, Knowledge, Mark Twain, Philosophy, Quotes on May 6, 2023| Leave a Comment »
Life’s Great Illusion
Posted in Quotes, Philosophy, Education, tagged Philosophy, Quotes, Education, Knowledge, Stephen Hawking, Sacha Guitry, Enemies, Ignorance, Curiosity, Illusion on April 28, 2023| 2 Comments »
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. | |
— Stephen Hawking | |
[To append to Sacha Guitry’s quote: “The little I know, I owe to my ignorance.” …And to my curiosity, if not my schooling. — kmab] | |
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On This Day In: | |
2022 | 3rd (40) |
Might Still Flicker Or Shine | |
2021 | Keep Growing |
I Keep Looking | |
2020 | I Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Plans |
One Earth | |
2019 | Beautiful Rules |
2018 | Skepticism |
2017 | WWGD? |
2016 | Growing Greatness |
2015 | When It Is Darkest |
2014 | Knowledge And Doubt |
2013 | Three Thoughts |
2012 | Gentle Reader |
2011 | Leave The Light On For Me Anyway |
Time And Chance
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Bible Quotes, Chance, Ecclesiastes 9:10-12, Evil Times, Favor, Fish, Have Gun Will Travel, Knowledge, Nets, Paladin, Philosophy, Planning, Quotes, Snares, Strong, Sun, Swift, Time, Wealth, Wisdom, Working on March 27, 2023| Leave a Comment »
10 Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the realm of the dead, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom. | |
11 I have seen something else under the sun: | |
The race is not to the swift | |
or the battle to the strong, | |
nor does food come to the wise | |
or wealth to the brilliant | |
or favor to the learned; | |
but time and chance happen to them all. | |
12 Moreover, no one knows when their hour will come: | |
As fish are caught in a cruel net, | |
or birds are taken in a snare, | |
so people are trapped by evil times | |
that fall unexpectedly upon them. | |
— Ecclesiastes 9:10-12 | |
[I recently heard these verses quoted in an episode of “Have Gun – Will Travel“. Paladin becomes friends with a bank robber who is killed at the end of the show. As he is passing, he asks Paladin to say a few words over him. He says (not a direct quote): I don’t think it’ll make much difference to where I’m going, but I’d like to hear what you’d say. He passes before hearing Paladin recite the 12th verse… — kmab] | |
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On This Day In: | |
2022 | One Hour Per Year |
2021 | If You’re A Lucky 11 Year Old |
Just Got To Be | |
Masked Countdown And Gratitude | |
2020 | Democratic Aspiration |
2019 | Soul Before Will |
2018 | Small Things |
2017 | Clear And Warm To Me |
2016 | Ripple |
2015 | Amazing Or Full Of Wonder? |
2014 | Are You Confused? |
2013 | But The Odds Are Against It |
2012 | Far Better Off With Books |
2011 | Timid And Fainthearted |
Now And Later
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Knowledge, Philosophy, Quotes, Winnie the Pooh on February 11, 2023| Leave a Comment »
What’s wrong with knowing what you know now and not knowing what you don’t know until later? | |
— Winnie the Pooh | |
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On This Day In: | |
2022 | Big And Bad (In A Good Way) |
2021 | Suggestions… |
Dichotomy | |
2020 | Until November… Then Vote |
2019 | Start With Health And Friends |
Iterum Vale Tres* | |
2018 | Tweets From The Disrupter-In-Chief |
2017 | Do We Still Listen To Her Silent Lips? |
Not Now, Not Ever | |
2016 | Why Do You Write/Blog? |
2015 | Can Your Repeat The Question, Please? |
2014 | On Faith |
2013 | My Name Is Charles Stein |
2012 | Faiths And Sorcery |
Made And Kept Free | |
2011 | Multi-Source Learning |
Keep Faith, But Also Keep Learning
Posted in Education, Philosophy, Quotes, Science and Learning, tagged Benjamin Spock, Education, Knowledge, Learning, Philosophy, Quotes, Thinking, Trust on December 7, 2022| Leave a Comment »
Trust yourself. You know more than you think. | |
— Benjamin Spock | |
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On This Day In: | |
2021 | A Tenacious Cycle |
Once Upon A Time… | |
2020 | Kinda Like Posting To A Blog About My Day |
Just A Different Point Of View | |
You Be The Judge | |
2019 | I Think I’m Repeating Myself |
It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like X-mas! | |
2018 | No Reason To Turn |
2017 | Talking Knuth |
Seeing It Through | |
2016 | Hoping For The Best Come January |
2015 | Adaptive Security |
2014 | Wants |
2013 | Side Effects |
2012 | Just Trying To Earn A Living |
2011 | Productive Worry |
If Only I Could…
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Contentment, Intellectual Life, Knowing, Knowledge, Philosophy, Quotes, Ralph Waldo Emerson on November 29, 2022| Leave a Comment »
People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know. | |
— Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
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On This Day In: | |
2021 | Become Daily |
Just Pickin’ | |
2020 | So, You Think You Know The Answer? |
The One You Come Running To | |
2019 | His Promises, OUR Hopes |
2018 | Where I Write |
2017 | At Last, An Honest Philosopher… |
2016 | Fake It ‘Til You Make It |
2015 | Hell Toupée |
2014 | Corrected And Amended |
2013 | Too Few |
2012 | Three Characters |
2011 | Universal Payment |
2010 | Privatizing the TSA? (An old – and long – post, but still relevant!!) |
A Way Of Thinking, An Essential Tool
Posted in Education, Philosophy, Quotes, Science and Learning, tagged A Way Of Thinking, Carl Sagan, Democracy, Facts, Hypotheses, Knowledge, New Ideas, Philosophy, Preconceptions, Quotes, Science, Scientists, Skeptical Scrutiny, Wisdom on November 5, 2022| Leave a Comment »
Science is much more than a body of knowledge. It is a way of thinking. This is central to its success. Science invites us to let the facts in, even when they don’t conform to our preconceptions. It counsels us to carry alternative hypotheses in our heads and see which ones best match the facts. It urges on us a fine balance between no-holds-barred openness to new ideas, however heretical, and the most rigorous skeptical scrutiny of everything — new ideas and established wisdom. We need wide appreciation of this kind of thinking. It works. It’s an essential tool for a democracy in an age of change. Our task is not just to train more scientists but also to deepen public understanding of science. | |
— Carl Sagan | |
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On This Day In: | |
2021 | Experience A Simple Whatever |
A Thousand Kisses | |
2020 | Talking Politics With Trump Republicans |
In Another Lifetime | |
2019 | People Will Come |
Change Is Here… | |
2018 | Be My Hero – Vote Tomorrow! |
He Was All Of Us… | |
2017 | Black And White |
Advice For #DumbDonald | |
2016 | Mirror, Mirror |
2015 | Speaking With Forked Tongue |
2014 | The Code |
2013 | Eventually Formed |
2012 | Remember To Vote Tomorrow |
2011 | It Sounds Like Chaos Theory To Me |
Just Waiting
Posted in Education, Philosophy, Quotes, Science and Learning, tagged Carl Sagan, Discovery, Education, Knowledge, Philosophy, Quotes, Science, Waiting on September 21, 2022| Leave a Comment »
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. | |
— Carl Sagan | |
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On This Day In: | |
2021 | I’ll Keep Trying To Anyway |
She Knows | |
2020 | Respond |
Still Trying To Adjust | |
2019 | The Limits Of My Knowledge |
2018 | Even Tiny Progress |
2017 | Real Conservatism |
2016 | The Business Of Life |
2015 | Alone Again, Naturally |
2014 | Agreed |
2013 | Smile From Your Heart! |
2012 | Like You |
2011 | Got Days? |
2010 | K9 Humor – Has Anyone Seen My Setter? (Must read!!) |
A Longer Blog Than You Want To Read (Probably) | |
2009 | Back and Forth and Round Again… |
Seek Good
Posted in Education, Philosophy, Quotes, Science and Learning, tagged Evil, Ignorance, Knowledge, Philosophy, Quotes, Socrates on March 20, 2022| Leave a Comment »
There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance. | |
― Socrates | |
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On This Day In: | |
2022 | Seek Good |
2021 | Aging Well |
Now And Forever | |
2020 | Always |
2019 | #45 Is More Of A Piddle Than A Puddle |
2018 | Found Out |
A Message To The “Wanna Be” Dictator On Leadership | |
2017 | Still Waiting… |
2016 | Same Old, Same Old |
2015 | Shout! |
2014 | I Hear Voices |
2013 | Ethics And Standards |
2012 | Swing Higher |
2011 | Convicted For Life |
Under My Fingertips…
Posted in Guitar, Music, tagged Guitar, Knowledge, Music, Tuning By Ear on March 8, 2022| 2 Comments »
I’ve been learning how to play guitar for a little over thirteen months and this morning when I began practicing I realized I’ve already “forgotten” more about guitar than I know (remember)… | |
Because playing a musical instrument is so much about muscle memory, practically none of the information I’ve read / watched has been retained in a usable format. I’m reminded of what we used to say in the Army: “You don’t know it until you can teach it and you can’t teach it until you can do it.“ | |
I’ve “learned” about so many music / guitar concepts without practicing them – until they are “under my fingertips” – that I am constantly experiencing “oh, that’s what that was talking about” moments. | |
Lately, I’ve been trying to tune the guitar by ear. I’m actually starting to get close. Of course, all of my guitars are already close to being “in-tune” (from frequent use), so I guess my next step will be to fully un-tune (de-tune?) one of them and see how close I can “really” get from scratch (on my own). | |
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On This Day In: | |
2022 | Under My Fingertips… |
Seeking The Divine | |
2021 | And My Sister Is Taxing |
What Did The Wise Men Say? | |
2020 | One Phrase |
2019 | Why #LyingDonald Can’t Trust Any Honorable Person |
2018 | An Old Style Conservative |
2017 | John Q. |
2016 | In Trembling Hope Repose |
2015 | Let There Be Light |
2014 | Unless |
2013 | Divergent Roads To Similarity? |
2012 | In The Process |
2011 | What Do You Emphasize? |
Limited Knowledge And No Control
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Claude Elwood Shannon, Control, Knowledge, Philosophy, Quotes, The Future, The Past on January 10, 2022| 2 Comments »
Thus we may have knowledge of the past but cannot control it; we may control the future but have no knowledge of it. | |
— Claude Elwood Shannon | |
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On This Day In: | |
2022 | Limited Knowledge And No Control |
2021 | Gifts |
Look Inside Your Heart | |
2020 | A Strength Of Science |
2019 | A Higher Standard |
Make Two Calls | |
2018 | Irreplaceable Sparks |
2017 | Saving For April 15th |
2016 | First Wish |
2015 | Tracing Shadows |
2014 | One Thing |
2013 | More Is Less |
2012 | The Screw-Up Gene |
More New Year’s Exercises
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Dr. Leo F. Buscaglia, Flowers, Knowledge, Philosophy, Planting, Quotes, Seeds, Smiles, Spiritual Exercise on January 2, 2022| 2 Comments »
The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another’s, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises. | |
— Dr. Leo F. Buscaglia | |
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On This Day In: | |
2021 | More New Year’s Exercises |
7 Done, 12 Down | |
2021 | Another Public Service Message |
Greetin’ The Sun | |
2020 | From The Mountains To The Shores |
2019 | Watering The Trees And Seeds |
1221 | |
2018 | Take Care Of Me… |
2017 | Make Some Difference |
2016 | Still 99% |
2015 | Adolescent Opinion |
2014 | In A Big World |
2013 | Vacancy For God |
2012 | Sweat Equity |
Try It… You’ll Like It | |
2011 | Still Incomplete |
2010 | Happy New Year – 2010 |
And Still Don’t Understand
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, Science and Learning, tagged Knowledge, Philosophy, Quotes, Robert M. Pirsig, Science, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance on December 23, 2021| Leave a Comment »
The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn’t misled you into thinking you know something you actually don’t know. | |
— Robert M. Pirsig | |
From his book: “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values“ | |
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On This Day In: | |
2021 | And Still Don’t Understand |
Unconditional | |
2020 | I Hope She Keeps Laughing |
Christmas Is Near | |
2019 | Ruff Clean |
2018 | Sounds Like A Blog To Me |
2017 | My Fear For America |
2016 | Proceeding Still |
2015 | Seeing Rainbows |
I Am A Runner | |
2014 | The Law Of The Perversity Of Nature |
2013 | One Standard Deviation |
2012 | High Anxiety |
2011 | And I’m Taking Me There |
2010 | 1,000 |
Said The Anti-Vaxxer
Posted in Health, Humor, Philosophy, Quotes, Science and Learning, tagged Anti-Vaxxer, Cholera, Health, Humor, Ignorance, Knowledge, Mark Twain, Medical Science, Philosophy, Quotes, Rabies, Samuel Clemens, Small Pox, The Plague, Typhoid, Vaccinations on September 13, 2021| Leave a Comment »
I would rather have my ignorance than another man’s knowledge because I have so much more of it. | |
— Mark Twain | |
[I watched an “anti-vaxxer” getting interviewed and his excuse for not getting a shot was: “We all gotta die of somethin’.“ | |
This is a poor attempt (by me) at sarcastic humor. And, no, there is no indication AT ALL that Samuel Clemens was anti-vaccination. In any case, at the time of his (Clemens / Twain) death only five vaccines had been discovered: Smallpox (1798), Rabies (1885), Typhoid (1896), Cholera (1896), and Plague (1897). — kmab] | |
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On This Day In: | |
2021 | Said The Anti-Vaxxer |
Ceiling Mash | |
2020 | Is #45 In Good Spirits? |
Alone With My Tears | |
2019 | Learning To… |
Day 15: Die By The Scale | |
2018 | Just Wondering |
2017 | Until I Think Of Something Better |
2016 | Who Are You? |
2015 | Renaissance Reptiles |
2014 | Book Return |
2013 | Keep Writing Your Truths |
Perilous Times For The U.S. Military | |
2012 | The Victor |
2011 | Forging Away At My Deadlines |
2010 | Try This With Your Shoes… |
Incomplete And Probably Inaccurate
Posted in Education, History, Philosophy, Quotes, Science and Learning, tagged History, Knowledge, Partisanship, Philosophy, Quotes, The Lessons Of History, Will and Ariel Durant on August 22, 2021| Leave a Comment »
Our knowledge of any past event is always incomplete, probably inaccurate, beclouded by ambivalent evidenced biased historians, and perhaps distorted by our own patriotic or religious partisanship. | |
— Will and Ariel Durant | |
From their book: “The Lessons Of History“ | |
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On This Day In: | |
2020 | One Of Your Responsibilities |
God Is Watching Us | |
2019 | Just Asking… |
2018 | Or Attacks On A Free Press |
Day 26: Life | |
2017 | Still Looking For The Key |
2016 | Not So Much Anymore, Boss |
2015 | Green Binge |
2014 | Overdone |
2013 | The Courage To Remake The World |
2012 | Minor Gifts |
2011 | I Love It When A Plan Comes Together… |
2010 | Eloquence |
Cleaning the Chalk Board | |