Monday, March 28, 2011

Monday Quotations

3/28/11.

"Whether someone has a network of good relationships or is alone in the world is a much stronger predictor of happiness than any other objective predictor."

--- Roy Baumeister, Professor of Psychology, Florida State University


"Reason is an ought only to be the slave of the passions, they can never pretend to any other office than to serve and objey them."

--- David Hume (1711 - 1776)


"We hear and apprehend only what we already half know."

--- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)


"Epistemological modesty is an attitude toward life. This attitude is built on the awareness that we don't know ourselves. Most of what we think and believe is unavailable to conscious review. We are our own deepest mystery."

--- David Brooks (1961 -    )

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