• Zombie@feddit.ukEnglish
    31·
    2 days ago

    It’s not mental repose they seek, but mental laziness.

    Those who never back down love themselves more than they love the truth.

    When the last word is always the one that offers itself first, the work becomes difficult.

    You want to explain everything by the facts that are known to you. But the facts that are not known to you? What do they say?

    It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.

    • Joseph Joubert

    https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joseph_Joubert

    Just some musings that this exchange made me think of.

    • MourningDove@lemmy.zipEnglish
      12·
      2 days ago

      Yeah. He definitely has some good quotes that apply here:

      • Ask the young. They know everything.

      • When I see young people such as those of our day, I think that Heaven wishes to destroy the world.

      • It is not facts, but rumors that cause emotions among the people. What is believed creates everything.

      • One loves to say what he knows, the other loves to say what he thinks.