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 | |
Posts Tagged ‘On Thinking’
Or Try To, Anyway…
Posted in Quotes, Science and Learning, tagged Leap Year, On Learning, On Teaching, On Thinking, Quotes, Socrates on February 29, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Start Today
Posted in Quotes, Reading, tagged Christopher Morley, On Being Silly, On Reading, On Thinking, Quotes, Reading on September 20, 2014| Leave a Comment »
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 |
Suspicious Minds
Posted in My Journal, Quotes, tagged H. Mumford Jones, Howard Mumford Jones, My Journal, On Thinking, Quotes on August 30, 2014| Leave a Comment »
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 |
Really
Posted in Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, tagged Edward R. Murrow, On Politics, On Prejudice, On Thinking, Philosophy, Quotes on September 11, 2013| 4 Comments »
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) |