Applicable quote for this subforum?

[Lloyd]

I saw the following quote and, while it's applicable to most people in society most of the time, thought it fit this subforum especially well.

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Typos courtesy of Samsung Auto-Incorrect™

[Chip]

“Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.”

― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

[Bold2013]

"I'd agree with you, but then we'd both be wrong"

Russell Lynes

[Bold2013]

“One of the great challenges in life is knowing enough to think you're right but not enough to know you're wrong”

[Chip]

I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.

—Oscar Wilde

[Chip]

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking other people to live as one wishes to live.

—Oscar Wilde

[dneal]

I ran across this one the other day.

Y'all have lost your goddamned minds....

[Lloyd]

I ran across this one the other day.

Y'all have lost your goddamned minds....

I'd like to see a person with multiple personality disorder say that to himself while looking in the mirror in a comedy movie.

Typos courtesy of Samsung Auto-Incorrect™

[Chuck Naill]

I think most people know the right thing to do , and most do. The problem is some know the right thing to do, and for one reason or another, choose something wrong. It may be pride, petty arrogance, or affiliations, but seldom stupidity.

[Chip]

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

—Oscar Wilde

[TSherbs]

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

—Oscar Wilde

That's a great quote!

[Lloyd]

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

—Oscar Wilde

That's a great quote!

Ditto!😉

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[Chip]

Wilde was a master of the epigram.

[724Seney]

"If assholes could fly, this place would be an airport."

-Unknown

[Chip]

They do fly: Business Class.

[Chip]

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

—Oscar Wilde

[dneal]

When you can't debate ideas, debate personalities.

[Chip]

Some of us lose either way.

—Oscar Wilde

[ethernautrix]

One of my favorite reminders:

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The Internet says Ajahn Chah said it.

[ethernautrix]

I ran across this one the other day.

Y'all have lost your goddamned minds....

I'd like to see a person with multiple personality disorder say that to himself while looking in the mirror in a comedy movie.

Actually picturing that made me laugh.

Seems that when people are too close to the argument, responding quickly, it's hard to see where they're going off the rails. Checking in once every coupla, few weeks... just wow. And imagine how this dynamic is repeated countlessly everywhere, every moment... it's a wonder we have a civilization at all (she said hyperbolically, to make a point).