Humans have an almost bottomless capacity to convince themselves that they are right about whatever serves their interests. Jim Geraghty, National Review...Read More
“The knowledge we get by tinkering, via trial and error, experience, and the workings of time, in other words, contact with the earth, is vastly superior to that obtained through reasoning”...Read More
“I am no wiser than a daw.’ No wiser than a daw.” Shakespeare(Henry VI Act II) From Lincoln’s Last Trial by Dan Abrams The repeat in this quote is questionable. The judge was pontificating...Read More
“Notes are a bother.” Abraham Lincoln As quoted in Lincoln’s Last Trial by Dan Abrams Notes are a “bother” for those few who have near photographic memories and perfect recall. F...Read More
“Law is nothing else but the reason of wise men.” Abraham Lincoln Quoted in Lincoln’s Last Trial by Dan Abrams A short interesting book that takes a detailed look at Lincoln just before he e...Read More
…But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed. William Shakespeare Othello Act III...Read More