Quotes for the Depression Forums 11-23
Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2009 6:05 pm
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B. F. Skinner, New Scientist, May 21, 1964
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
-- Carl Sagan, Cosmos (Blues for a Red Planet)
A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.
-- Jessamyn West
-- B. F. Skinner, New Scientist, May 21, 1964
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
-- Carl Sagan, Cosmos (Blues for a Red Planet)
A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.
-- Jessamyn West