Our brains prefer a simple falsehood to a complex truth.
Brian McClaren describing complexity bias in an insightful post
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I would not give a fig for the simplicity on this side of complexity, but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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I take it as an elemental truth of life that words matter.
Krista Tippett in Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living, page 15
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Love is the motive, but justice is the instrument.
—Reinhold Niebuhr (1892–1971)
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“Rules are not necessarily sacred,” Franklin Delano Roosevelt said, “principles are.”
This quote begins Sister Joan Chittister’s column this week about applying the wisdom of centuries to the present day. I highly recommend reading it: https://www.ncronline.org/news/opinion/where-i-stand/principles-pandemic
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“The wise speak because they have something to say; fools speak because they have to say something.”
~ ~ ~ Plato
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“You understand so little of what is around you because you do not use what is within you.”
~~~ Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179)
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Indeed, living in harmony with reality may be accepted as a formal definition of wisdom.
~~~ Loyal Rue
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“Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
~~~ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“Nothing in life is to be feared, only understood. Now is the time to understand more so that we may fear less.”
~~~ Marie Curie
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