Thoughts and ideas that hold forever true..........

[Dragline]

My quote is gone, but it used to read.

"Now that we know that, what have we learned"

Which is my own as far as I know.

[Ace-Garageguy]

Lotsa people know the price of everything, and the value of nothing.

[Ace-Garageguy]

Cynicism is not the same as recognizing and facing reality.

[Ace-Garageguy]

"A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse"

[JollySipper]

5 hours ago, Ace-Garageguy said:

Lotsa people know the price of everything, and the value of nothing.

There's a Lot of value in nothing! Wanting nothing, needing nothing, fearing nothing...........  

I get your statement, Bill. Usually it's your time that folks don't know the value of......

[Big Messer]

There are people that are so poor that the only thing they have is money...

[mk11]

Getting what we don't deserve is grace; not getting what we do deserve is mercy.

[Ace-Garageguy]

Dietrich Bonhoeffer argued that stupid people are more dangerous than evil ones because while we can defend against or fight evil people, against stupid ones we are powerless; objective truth and reasoning fall on deaf ears. 

"Against stupidity we are defenseless. Neither protests nor the use of force accomplish anything here. Reasons fall on deaf ears. Facts that contradict a stupid person’s prejudgment simply need not be believed and when they are irrefutable, they are just pushed aside as inconsequential, as incidental. In all this the stupid person is self-satisfied and, being easily irritated, becomes dangerous by going on the attack. The fact that the stupid person is often stubborn must not blind us from the fact that he is not independent. In conversation with him, one virtually feels that one is dealing not at all with him as a person, but with slogans, catchwords, and the like that have taken possession of him. He is under a spell, blinded, misused, and is abused in his very being. Having thus become a mindless tool, the stupid person will also be capable of any evil - incapable of seeing that it is evil." 

Edited 19 hours ago by Ace-Garageguy

[johnyrotten]

 

 

[mcs1056]

No problem is so great that we cannot make it much worse in trying to correct it. 

[mk11]

The gem can not be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.

[Ace-Garageguy]

Where'er ye be, letcher wind blow free.

[Bugatti Fan]

Upper class casinos demand that gentlemen visiting their establishments must wear a tie.

Cannot get my head around this as they exist solely in order to get gentlemen to lose their shirt !