Quotes Worth Quoting

[endo]

@scooter:

“Why do people say “grow some balls”? Balls are weak and sensitive. If you wanna be tough, grow a vagina. Those things can take a pounding.” ~ Betty White

quote of the year already!

[Bfd70]

Sorry

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/betty-white-grow-some-balls/

[Jett129]

Thanks,I totally bought it.

[endo]

still a great phrase 

[neph93]

While we are on the subject of falsely attributed quotes, this is my favourite. I came across it in my studies recently and I find it both clever and accurate.

"In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice they are not".

[scooter]

@Bfd70:

Sorry

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/betty-white-grow-some-balls/

Post amended.

[scooter]

@Jett129:

Thanks,I totally bought it.

I as well. I totally imagined her saying it. It even shows up on a number of quoting sites, as hers.

[dinobarnesberlin]

'' The trouble with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts while the stupid ones are full of confidence''

c.bukowski

[mclaincausey]

Bukowski independently discovered something like Dunning-Kruger.

Those lacking intellectual intelligence also often seem to lack emotional intelligence and empathy, which is even more damaging when you have to share a planet with them.

[Fadez]

[mention]mclaincausey [/mention] I think the link you posted is broken. But I looked it up anyway. Great read and thank you for sharing. I really enjoy concepts like this

[steelworker]

@dinobarnesberlin:

'' The trouble with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts while the stupid ones are full of confidence''

c.bukowski

The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.  Yeats

Chuckie knew that when you steal, steal from the best.

[neph93]

@steelworker:

Chuckie knew that when you steal, steal from the best.

All the hacks do [emoji1]

[Graham]

I always thought the balls quote was Joan Rivers.

[scooter]

" I don't know, sage is just… that's me. Therefore, it's not. "

[dinobarnesberlin]

" When a society regrets the economic loss more than the loss of life, it doesn't need a virus–it is already sick"

unknown

[neph93]

@dinobarnesberlin:

" When a society regrets the economic loss more than the loss of life, it doesn't need a virus–it is already sick"

unknown

Boom!

[Manticore]

Read this quote recently and resonated deeply given today's polarized political climate.

"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate."

• Noam Chomsky

Said differently but from another angle:

"Panem et circenses" - Juvenal

[LewisStonehouse]

“All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.”
Douglas Adams

“Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

[mclaincausey]

Good ones from great ones!

Speaking of great ones, I’m so grateful for this one, who recently passed:

Now is time to begin to learn how to love in a non-discriminatory way because we are intelligent enough, but we are not loving enough as a species.

-Thich Nhat Hanh

[scooter]

"Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit." - Mahatma Gandhi