that which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next..can you think of anything or anyone who comes into this category?
i'm not sure exactly what you mean, are you talking about people like thomas edison or the guy who saifd the world was round?
yes hippies and their ancestors. is this a trick q?Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
the guy who invented cheese must have been crazy, or more precisely,the guy who first decided to eat it the first guy to drink the milk from the udder of a cow must have been shunned by his friends don't you think?
I think in general most discoveries of any kind can seem radical enough and the time of the discovery because if they didn't, then someone would have already thought of it.
*sigh*...oh well I thought this would be as good an oppotunity as any to dig these out....Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970) The wisest mind has something yet to learn. George Santayana (1863 - 1952) Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804) Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. James Boswell (1740 - 1795), Life of Samuel Johnson, 1791 We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take us or spare us. Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922) To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe. Marilyn vos Savant Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish. Quintilian, De Institutione Oratoria Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired. Titus Maccius Plautus (254 BC - 184 BC), Trinummus A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top . Unknown Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. William Saroyan (1908 - 1981) The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "As You Like It", Act 5 scene 1
Thanx bhudmaash The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970) The Marquis Fuck wisdom. ..you can get seduced by it!! Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
no worries. Good to see someone else from GB. I was begining to feel a little isolated ( think that's a trait the british seem to be born with). So where abouts are you exactly?:m:
I think Ignorance is underestimated. We don't know how f*@£ing ignorant we realy are. Ohwell, Ignorance is bliss right?
