Random Thoughts On The Passing Scene - Part 2

General Quips, Axioms, Sayings, and Mantras I like (profound and otherwise)

Collected over many years, attribution for the title goes to amazing Thomas Sowell based on his once regular column of the same title. Read all of those first and perhaps a second time before mine. I have to note that Art Carden beat me to this.

[Disclaimer that these might be partially or wholly, but completely unintentionally, stolen.]

• The mistake hardest to correct is the one made in the midst of continued success.

• An irrational zealot is more inspired by the pursuit of a goal than by its achievement.

• Life is a work in progress. Allow for variance. Adapt to change.

• It is not gambling if it should happen. Gambling requires expenditure in the pursuit of expected loss.

• Talent is the measure of potential. Experience is the measure of the ability to reach that potential.

• I wish to always view my life from the perspective of the future in front of me rather than the past behind me.

• The world is full of “I shoulds” with some “I wills” and very few “I haves”.

• When we mourn the dead, is the sorrow for them who are no longer with us or us who are no longer with them?

• Think small, be small.

• You will never grow rich chasing pennies.

• Quit dreaming what you could be and start living what you are.

• The world is shaped by war and built by peace.

• Superstition is the philosophy of the weak mind.

• Self-indulgence, addiction, and ignorance are all prisons, and prison is a refuge.

• Purpose is equivalent to continued life.

• Quitting is too often not viewed as a new beginning. But it should be.

• Obvious problems have easy answers--there are but few truly obvious problems. Don’t confuse symptoms with problems.

• Seeing the devil is most fearsome not for the difference between the seer and the devil but for the similarity.

• Evil offers all things pleasant except truth.

• Resisting temptation is a rage against the easy, the obvious, and the quick for the treacherous, the vague, and the endless.

• The allure of depression is the excuse it offers.

• In some cases unhappy people don’t want to be happy.

• One must love others not through their sins nor without their sins but despite their sins.

• Everyone is both a better person and a worse person in truth than everyone thinks they are: Everyone should try to be a better person than everyone thinks they are no matter how high that standard may be.

• Great leadership is not to give command. It is to give advice.

• The wise man is resistant to ideas being planted in his head, but he is open to suggestion.

• The only worthy pursuit in life is truth.

• Betrayal is a wicked knife.