Or Try To, Anyway…

I cannot teach anybody anything.  I can only make them think.
―  Socrates
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On This Day In (Leap Year):
2012	Stingray – TV Series Review  (This is my most popular post since starting my blog – hands down!  It still draws hits almost every week.  The hits seem to come mostly from Central Europe.  I guess the show must be in syndication there.)
	A Single Thread

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Start Today

Read, every day, something no one else is reading.  Think, every day, something no one else is thinking.  Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do.  It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.
—    Christopher Morley
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On This Day In:
2013	Fly!!
2012	Greater Love
2011	Before

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Suspicious Minds

Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think, and suspicious of men who try to.
—    Howard Mumford Jones
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On This Day In:
2013	We Are Not Alone
2012	Lawyer, n.
2011	Each Day Remember…
2010	Impossible Dreams of Camelot

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Hmmm

The less men think, the more they talk.
—  Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu
[Commonly “just” called “Montesquieu”  —  KMAB]
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On This Day In:
2013	What’s A Motto With You?
2012	Worthy Companions
2011	Bourne Again
	Which Ten Are You In?

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Really

A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.
—    Edward R. Murrow
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On This Day In:
2012	Ordinary Five Minutes Longer
2011	The Wealth Of Sons (And Daughters)

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