"The worry that unreflective belief acquisition may be unreliable, after all, applies equally to reflective belief acquisition: it too may be unreliable. To my mind, the plausibility of internalist views about justification is dramatically decreased when one becomes vividly aware of what introspection and reflection actually achieve."

-- Hilary Kornblith

#Reflection Quotes #Views Quotes #Worry Quotes

“Don't waste time thinking about what could have been when you could be thinking about what could be.”
“Books in your head help no one.”
“About the only thing we have left that actually discriminates in favor of the plain people is the stork.”
“We have a lot of limiting beliefs that we're not even conscious of. Maybe your family taught you you weren't good enough or you weren't smart enough. Perhaps we're taught that this religion is good and all other religions are bad. It's endless.”

Source : Source: www.edgemagazine.net
“I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas, as if whatever it was the pine boughs and the candles and the silver and gilt-ribboned presents and the birch-log fires and the Christmas turkey and the carols at the piano promised never came to pass.”
“In America we tell our parents to bring their child home and put him or her in a crib; as they get older, children sleep in they own room not in Mom and Dad's room. What are we training them for? It's independence, because that's what being empowered is all about.”
“It's easier to make an album, harder to figure out how to get people to notice it...”
“Life is the thing--the song of life-- The eager plow, the thirsty knife!”

Source : Conrad Potter Aiken, “Youth Imperturbable”

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