"The consequences of a plethora of half-digested theoretical knowledge are deplorable."

-- Alfred North Whitehead

#Half Quotes #Theoretical Quotes #Consequence Quotes

“An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher. The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity, and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity, will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.”

Source : Dr. John W. Gardner (2015). “Excellence: Can We Be Equal And Excellent Too?”, p.97, Pickle Partners Publishing
“Your true self is beyond either relying on others or avoiding them in order to know who you are.”
“There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves, but it were much better to make such good provisions by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and of dying for it.”
“It's really nice that the truth can finally come out.”
“Beyond [known peoples of black West Africa] to the south there is no civilization in the proper sense. There are only humans who are closer to dumb animals than to rational beings. They live in thickets and caves, and eat herbs and unprepared grain. They frequently eat each other. They cannot be considered human beings.”

Source : "Muqaddimah" translated by Franz Rosenthal, Princeton University Press, 1981.
“I'm probably something like 95% chicken nugget”
“Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized.”
“The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes.”

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