Important ideas can come from unexpected places. We tend to label people
- Genius, Idiot, Socialist, Right Wingnut, Freedom Fighter, Terrorist.
But it is helpful to remind ourselves to be open to good ideas -
whatever their source. It is equally important to avoid accepting any
idea merely because we respect that person's other ideas or
accomplishments. A further complication is that many quotes are falsely
attributed - Thomas Jefferson, for example, didn't say half of what he
is quoted as saying.
Here are some unexpected quotes - both important insights from infamous mouths and off-the-wall ideas from honored people...
Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights, because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt (creator and publisher of Hustler magazine)
What the Larry Flynn quote means to me...
A democratically-elected government is probably necessary to protect
Human Rights, but it is not sufficient. Majorities protect their own
rights, but not necessarily the rights of minorities.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Not only do wise words come from unexpected mouths, but those people who we consider wise don't always live up to our expectations...
I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
- Isaac Newton (discoverer of the laws of gravitation and motion, famous mathematician, and perhaps the greatest scientist ever)
If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.
- attributed to Joseph Goebbels (Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany)
Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.
- Karl Marx (German philosopher and political economist whose ideas are credited as the foundation of modern communism)
Spurious Quotations: Here are a couple of great quotes - except that they weren't said by who everybody thinks they were...
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.
- Josh Billings (not Mark Twain)
"Mother Teresa Prayer"
People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered; ... Forgive them anyway.
- Kent Keith (Mother Teresa kept a copy on the wall of her orphanage)
Further reading: Mother Teresa quotes: Love begins at home
Welcome to my Daily Inspiration - Daily Quote. See today's daily inspirational quotes below.
May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie
May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Monday, January 23, 2023
Unexpected Quotes...
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