To: stockman_scott who wrote (18464 ) 5/1/2003 12:58:12 AM From: Sully- Respond to of 89467 Here are a few other things to live by........ “This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man." - William Shakespeare (Hamlet) Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth - 1 Corinthians 13:6 "At the core of all well-founded belief, lies belief that is unfounded ." LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN “It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning." - Claude Bernard (1813-1878 French Physiologist) “The assassin and the slanderer differ only in the weapon they use; with the one it is the dagger, with the other the tongue. The latter is worse than the former, for the first only kills the body, while the other murders the reputation.” - Tyron Edwards "He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world's believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions." - Thomas Jefferson “Our vision is more obstructed by what we think we know than by our lack of knowledge.” - Kristen Stendahl "We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't, it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions." - JASSAMYN WEST "You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it." - Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874- 1936) “Most people nurture the facts that confirm their world view and ignore or marginalize the ones that don't, unable to achieve enough emotional detachment from their own political passions to see the world as it really is.” - David Brooks "Reality is that which, when you quit believing in it, doesn't go away." - Philip K. Dick "Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world." - Arthur Schopenhauer, philosopher “People only see what they are prepared to see.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Denial is a creative opportunity..." -Adja-Pelly-GoBoomdamn “The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.” - Richard Feynman