More Themes
- “It’s a darn sight easier to slip on bullshit than it is to slip on gravel.”
– Lyndon Johnson - “Human beings are born with different capacities, if they are free, then they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.” – Jordan Peterson.
- “Orwell was right: Socialists don’t care about the poor, they just hate the rich.”
- Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.
– C.S. Lewis - “Don’t recommend any changes that you wouldn’t suffer for if they failed.”
– Jordan Peterson - Do what is meaningful, not what is expedient.”
– Jordan Peterson - “What you most what to find will be found where you least want to look.”
– Carl Jung, paraphrased by Jordan Peterson. - “Tyranny is the deliberate removal of nuance”
– Albert Maysles - “Science is about what is true.”
– Sean Carroll, CalTech cosmologist - “But, no, it’s not. Science is about describing what we observe. Science is about what is useful. Mathematics is about what is true.”
– Sabine Hossenfelder, Research Fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies
- Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.”
– James Baldwin - “Statisticians, like artists, have a bad habit of falling in love with their models.”
– George Edward Pelham Box - “I have kleptomania. But when it gets bad, I take something for it.”
– Ken Dodd (8 November 1927-) - ‘Trying is the first step towards failure.”
-Homer Simpson (age 39) - “Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.”
– Mark Twain - “To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life’s problems.”
– Homer Simpson - “Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.”
– Henry David Thoreau - “One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity there ain’t nothing can beat teamwork.”
– Mark Twain - Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often
– Mae West - Probability calculations become irrelevant after the event.