Security and certainty

Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

~ Helen Keller

Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.

~ George Bernard Shaw

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

~ Albert Einstein

Christmas

If anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. He who does not love me will not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me.

~Yeshua Cristos, as reported by John, son of Zebedee

 

In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. (This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.) And everyone went to his own town to register.

 So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David. He went there to register with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him and was expecting a child. While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born, and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.

~Luke, the Historian in the account he recorded for his friend Theophilus, Chapter 2: 1-7

 

Art vs Science

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers
~ Pablo Picasso

Common Sense and Wisdom

I've always been in the right place and time. Of course, I steered myself there.

~ Bob Hope

Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.

~ W.C. Fields

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.

~ Job 28:28

~Psalm 111:10

~ Proverbs 1:7

~ Proverbs 9:10

~ Proverbs 15:33

~ Isaiah 33:6

~ Micah 6:9

of knowledge and learning

"Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge that is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind."

~ Plato

"Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. For what is the time of a man, except it be interwoven with that memory of ancient things of a superior age?"

~ Cicero