It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

-Mark Twain-

“Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.”

― André Gide

It's easier to be fooled then it is to be told you have been fooled.

A fool and his money are soon parted.

"How, the fuck, could I have been so stupid!" BYU Boner on the day his shelf collapsed.

I think you stole my quote. I said this too.

"Go sell crazy somewhere else. We're all stocked up here."

"I'd rather live as my own man than a mor man!"
-- Judic West, Archbishop of Pacoima

Pacoima has an archbishop! Does the cardinal know about this? The Angelino's Boner.

"If it makes you happy, then why the hell are you so sad?"

-Sheryl Crow

Another:

“Religion is like a pair of shoes.....Find one that fits for you, but don't make me wear your shoes.”

― George Carlin

Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

-- Albert Einstein

You can't pray a lie. Mark Twain

"We will go down." It has new meaning.

"There's more to a Big Mac Combo Meal than meets the eye!"
--Ronald McDonald

Like semen.
(see other post about this).

And the truth will set you free.

It ain't the meat it's the motion

--The Swallows (yes)

"Nothing at last is sacred but the integrity of your own mind" - Emerson

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

When one sees one's own worth, it becomes harder to stay around people who don't.

Briggy

Maturity is going from cock sure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty

"A mind stretched by a new idea can never go back to its original dimension"


"Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion." Steven Weinberg

You are entitled to your own opinion. You are not entitled to your own facts.

"If the truth doesn't make you free, then the lack of truth may drive you to escape"

John W. Campbell, Jr., editor of Astounding/Analog science fiction magazine, introducing some long-forgotten science fiction story in the 1950s/60s.

"Members are relentlessly pressured to strain at gnats by avoiding alcohol, tobacco, coffee, tea, facial hair, tattoos, body piercing, R-rated movies, public displays of affection, nudity, erotica, masturbation, necking, petting, premarital sex, disrespect or questioning of authority, dissent, and anger, while being constantly encouraged to swallow camels by tolerating elitism, racism, misogyny, lack of intimacy, homophobia, xenophobia, moral superiority, purification by exclusion, institutional secrecy, theological correctness, spiritual abuse, class discrimination, disdain for civil liberties, and the abdication of personal judgment and responsibility."

...Paul Toscano

Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

- Douglas Adams

"What are you trying to pull?"


"I am trying to pull some brain cells out of your ass and see if they will work their way up to your head"

An exchange in a post on this board by randy j to a TBM's continued ignorance.

Now that's funny... Stealing!

“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.” Carl Sagan

“I will not attack your doctrine nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous-if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men.” Isaac Asimov

The truth will set you free. But, first, it's going to really piss you off...

Just because you believe it, don't make it true.

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

Philip K. Dick


The Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow of the earth on the moon and I have more faith in the Shadow than in the Church.

Attributed to Ferdinand Magellan

God is a comedian performing for an audience that is afraid to laugh.

"...I am the Master of my fate, I am the Captain of my soul."
- Invictus

To learn who rules over you simply discover who you cannot criticize. (or something close to that)

"Being shunned by idiots is not a punishment."