Brainy Thoughts

“Prejudice seldom shows much reason.”

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“The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it intuition or what you will, and the solution comes to you and you don’t know how or why.”

Albert Einstein Quote

“If you don’t know which way to turn,
You don’t know where you are.”

Author Unknown.

Plato said; “In vino veritas” (“Truth in wine”)

BrainyThoughts.com postulates; “With beer, anything is possible”

“In my time as Prime Minister, I have found that the hard part is not taking the decision, it is spotting when it has to be taken. It is understanding the difference between the challenges that have to be managed and those that have to be confronted and overcome. “

Tony Blair

Source Prime Minister Tony Blair’s address to the EU Parliment.

“Ideals survive through change, they die through inertia in the face of challenge.”

Tony Blair – UK Prime Minister
Today – in a public statement about the European Constitution and survival of the EU.

“We become the things we do.”

Author Unknown.

The golden rule in human relations is;

“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”

But it could be said that the Platinum Rule is;

“Do unto others as they want to be done unto.”

There is a saying in professional sports, that;

“Ordinary athletes train to increase their chance of winning.
True champions train to eliminate their chance of loosing.”

“To be truthful means using the customary metaphor, in moral terms: the obligation to lie according to a fixed convention, to lie herdlike in a style obligatory for all.”

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
(1844-1900) German Philosopher, Poet

“There are no facts, only interpretations.”

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
(1844-1900) German Philosopher, Poet

“If I am not for myself, who will be for me?
And if I am only for myself, what am I?
And if not now – then when?”

Hillel – Jewish rabbi and teacher 70 BC-10 AD

A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner:

“Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time.”

When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied:

“The one I feed the most.”

“If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.”

Zen proverb