Quote of the Day - 2

[StalkeR]

The only source of knowledge is experience.
Albert Einstein

 

[Barman58]

The only source of knowledge is experience.
Albert Einstein

I actually disagree with Albert here

If this was the case then we would all have to hit ourselves over the head with a blunt object to know it is not a good idea

 

[mickey megabyte]

maybe you only think it's a bad idea until you actually hit yourself over the head with a blunt object, only after doing it do you know.

this is an example of a posteriori knowledge - based on empirical evidence - you performed the experiment (hitting yourself), and the resulting pain convinced you it wasn't a good idea.

before the experiment, it was a belief, which turned into a truth, and knowledge came out of the intersection. it may have been a truth before the experiment, but you didn't know it was.

however, there's also a proiri knowledge, which is stuff you already know before and without experimenting - eg i know that 'all bachelors are unmarried' - i don't have to get off the couch and talk to every single bachelor to find out whether or not he is married. i know already beforehand, without needing an experiment. Einstein seems to ignore this sort of knowledge.

then there's more abstract stuff - i 'know' about imaginary numbers, for example, but never experienced them - or do i only 'think' that i 'know'?

it's certainly a head-scratcher that has puzzled philosophers for thousands of years, and has puzzled mickey for decades.

if you like scratching your head, read about epistemology.

 

[Yorkfield]

Here are some of my favourite quotes:


● Love the believer, not the belief.

● Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

● If you're going through hell .. keep going !

● Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.

● Something I have to remember when seeking revenge: dig two graves.

● Cowards die many times before their death, the vailant taste death but once.

● You laugh at me because I'm different ? I laugh at you because you're all the same !

● Sometimes you're just one person to the world. And sometimes to one person, you are the world.

● Everything passes and vanishes. Everything leaves a trace. You often see in the footsteps, what you couldn't see in the face.

 

[A Guy]

They say love is blind...and marriage is an institution. Well, I'm not ready for an institution for the blind just yet.
~Mae West

A Guy

 

[Dwarf]

The only source of knowledge is experience.
Albert Einstein

I actually disagree with Albert here

If this was the case then we would all have to hit ourselves over the head with a blunt object to know it is not a good idea

I think that Doc is currently testing that theory.

 

[Barman58]

I have daily practice too

I even have a special place for it

 

[vierasniper]

take all you can, and give nothing back

~ some pirates?

 

[Hopalong X]

And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
Confucius
551 BC- 479 BC

 

[zigzag3143]

“The reality of the other person lies not in what he reveals to you, but what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says, but rather to what he does not say.”

Khalil Gibran

 

[A Guy]

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top.
~Author Unknown

A Guy

 

[JMH]

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.

Richard Bach.​

 

[zigzag3143]

It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost.



Richard Bach

 

[Baroness von Shush]

The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play!

 

[johnwillyums]

People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought, which they avoid. SOREN KIERKEGAARD

 

[Barman58]

Today just had to post this

For The Fallen



With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children,
England mourns for her dead across the sea.
Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of spirit,
Fallen in the cause of the free.
Solemn the drums thrill: Death august and royal
Sings sorrow up into immortal spheres.
There is music in the midst of desolation
And a glory that shines upon our tears.
They went with songs to the battle, they were young,
Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow.
They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted,
They fell with their faces to the foe.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old;
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
They mingle not with laughing comrades again;
They sit no more at familiar tables of home;
They have no lot in our labour of the day-time;
They sleep beyond England's foam.
But where our desires are and our hopes profound,
Felt as a well-spring that is hidden from sight,
To the innermost heart of their own land they are known
As the stars are known to the Night;
As the stars that shall be bright when we are dust,
Moving in marches upon the heavenly plain,
As the stars that are starry in the time of our darkness,
To the end, to the end, they remain.

Laurence Robert Binyon, 1869-1943

 

[JMH]

Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

 

[zigzag3143]

The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one. The barrier between them cannot be said to have broken down as a result of recent experience in the physical sciences, for this barrier does not exist.



Erwin Schrodinger

 

[mickey megabyte]

what have you been doing to the cat? it looks half dead!

mrs schrödinger

 

[JMH]

what have you been doing to the cat? it looks half dead!

mrs schrödinger

Or half alive....