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Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go. ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#been #best #go #good #hindsight

When you see a person, do you just concentrate on their looks? It's just a first impression. Then there's someone who doesn't catch your eye immediately, but you talk to them and they become the most beautiful thing in the world. The greatest actors aren't what you would call beautiful sex symbols. ↗

— Brad Pitt

#beautiful thing #become #call #catch #concentrate

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal. ↗

— Plato

#being #cleverness #entire #evil #extreme

Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance. ↗

— Plato

#attention #greatest #health #hindrance #life

We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue. ↗

— Plato

#children #esteem #fictions #first #greatest

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good. ↗

— Plato

#evil #fear #good #greatest #know

The greatest talents often lie buried out of sight. ↗

— Plautus

#greatest #lie #often #out #sight

Barack Obama is one of the greatest politicians in American history. ↗

— John Podhoretz

#american history #barack #barack obama #greatest #history

Electoral contests have nothing but polls, which is why people have grown so obsessed with them; we're desperate for an objective rendering of what is happening and what may happen. ↗

— John Podhoretz

#desperate #electoral #grown #happen #happening

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#directly #fidelity #frequent #friendship #goes