Quote of the Day: 30 April 2024 #QotD

“When you’ve had hatred on your tongue for such a long time, you don’t know how to spit it out.” -Samuel Vimes, Raising Steam
[It's hard to divest yourself of unjust prejudices. Even worse when they are generally supported by your social circles.]

Quote of the Day: 29 April 2024 #QotD

“Now I dread specialists in power because they are specialists speaking outside their special subjects. Let scientists tell us about sciences. But government involves questions about the good for man, and justice, and what things are worth having at what price; and on these a scientific training gives a man’s opinion no added value.” -C. S. Lewis
[There is a particular hubris that arises from a learned man trusting to his learning. Because he is knowledgeable in one area he begins to think he is able to speak on any subject with authority.]

Quote of the Day: 28 April 2024 #QotD

“When siblings pray for each other and serve each other, hearts will be softened and turned to each other and to their parents.” -Henry B. Eyring

Quote of the Day: 27 April 2024 #QotD

“You know, the less you talk, the more people assume that what you’re not saying is important.” -Phillip McCall, Off to Be the Wizard
[Always a good ide to let people think as well of you as you are able to pull off. And if it's as simple as remaining silent why not try?]

Quote of the Day: 26 April 2024 #QotD

“[G]uilt has a great number of friends and keeps their addresses handy for quick summons.” -Hoid, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
[It is so easy to fall into self-loathing or some milder variant thereof when reminiscing about events of the past. Particularly those that are less than exemplary.]

Quote of the Day: 25 April 2024 #QotD

“It is hard to think of any power exercised by human beings over other human beings that has not been abused.” -Thomas Sowell
[I'm not aware of any, but I haven't really gone looking for one either.]

Quote of the Day: 24 April 2024 #QotD

“Not everything is a diagnosable issue.” -Adam Lane Smith
[And it is foolish to treat everything as though it is.]

Quote of the Day: 23 April 2024 #QotD

“[W]hat’s the point of even having a world if you’re not going to pass it on to the next generation?” -Ryland Grace, Project Hail Mary
[This is applicable to more than just the physical world we inhabit, but also the philosophical world of culture we should, and in some cases must pass on to our children.]

Quote of the Day: 22 April 2024 #QotD

“In the best Utopia, I must be prepared for the moral fall of any man in any position at any moment; especially for my fall from my position at this moment.” -G. K. Chesterton
[Acknowledging the possibility of my own fall helps in preventing it. If I deny that possibility, I then ignore any indication that I may be on my way to that result. On the other hand, in seeing that as possible I allow myself to see what could happen to draw me toward that end.]

Quote of the Day: 21 April 2024 #QotD

“Giving place in our hearts or minds for unkind feelings or thoughts will produce unkind words and actions, whether on social media or in our homes, causing the Spirit of the Lord to withdraw from our hearts.” -Ulisses Soares

Quote of the Day: 20 April 2024 #QotD

“As a rule, people aren’t good at handling power.” -Harry Dresden, Cold Days
[Those who don't want it tend to be the best suited to wielding it, but least likely to end up with it. The reverse is true, too. Sadly.]

Quote of the Day: 19 April 2024 #QotD

“The ugly truth is gun control zealots don’t care about stopping crime, any more than criminals care about breaking laws.” -Larry Correia

[What they actually care about is all in the second word of their movement. They want control. Pure and simple.]

Quote of the Day: 18 April 2024 #QotD

“It is my belief, however, that the truth is generally preferable to lies[.]” -Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
[It really ought to be the position of everyone. But there are many who'd prefer to be lied to, rather than to hear the reality of the situation.]

Quote of the Day: 17 April 2024 #QotD

“[T]he pursuit of science, despite its social benefits, is itself not a social virtue; its practitioners can be men so self-centered as to be lacking in social responsibility.” -Maj. Reid, Starship Troopers
[Science is amoral. The morals are applied, or not, by those practicing science. Therefore, the right and wrong are determined outside of the realm of science.]

Quote of the Day: 16 April 2024 #QotD

“Oftentimes our heart tells us what the mind has yet to understand.” -Sharlene Habermeyer
[This is why it is important to listen to both your heart and your mind. Where one is dominant over the other to the point of domineering you end up in an unhealthy situation. But as they begin to work in tandem, you will find yourself moving in good directions.]

Quote of the Day: 15 April 2024 #QotD

“I’m going to get in bed now and avoid the rush.” -Hobbes, Calvin and Hobbes
[About what I'd like to do. Not that I'll get to.]

Quote of the Day: 14 April 2024 #QotD

“God hears every prayer we offer and responds to each of them according to the path He has outlined for our perfection.” -Jeffrey R. Holland

Quote of the Day: 13 April 2024 #QotD

“[T]he world lives between those who say it cannot be done and those who say that it can. And in my experience, those who say that it can be done are usually telling the truth.” -Havelock Vetinari, Raising Steam
[A determined individual with a vision of possibility is more likely to succeed than to fail. Regardless of the endeavor.]

Quote of the Day: 12 April 2024 #QotD

“No generation can bequeath to its successor what it has not got.” -C. S. Lewis
[So preserve for yourself, and your progeny, those things that you value in society. Hopefully, much of it can be passed on to subsequent generations.]

Quote of the Day: 11 April 2024 #QotD

“It’s amazing how quickly we get used to weirdness when it’s our own weirdness.” -Martin Banks, Off to Be the Wizard
[The weird things I do aren't actually weird. They're just my idiosyncrasies, or quirky behaviors. Didn't you know?]

Quote of the Day: 10 April 2024 #QotD

“Humans are incredibly malleable. Despite my breadth of experience, I’ve never stopped being surprised at how durable human beings can be. They can survive in almost any environment. They can recover from debilitating loss. They can be crushed physically, mentally, emotionally—and still ask you how your day is going.” -Hoid, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

[Just another example of how we're adaptable. Even to things that should be damaging.]

Quote of the Day: 9 April 2024 #QotD

“The advantages that some people have, in a given endeavor, are not just disadvantages to everyone else. These advantages also benefit all the people who pay for the product or service provided by that endeavor.” -Thomas Sowell
[Otherwise known as learning not to cut off your nose to spite your face.]

Quote of the Day: 8 April 2024 #QotD

“A partial eclipse is like a cool sunset. A total eclipse is like someone broke the sky.” -Randall Munroe
[Happy Eclipse Day! May you find the sun only occluded by the moon, and not by anything else.]

Quote of the Day: 7 April 2024 #QotD

“An understanding of God’s fabulous plan takes the mystery out of life and the uncertainty out of our future. It allows each of us to choose how we will live here on earth and where we will live forever.” -Russell M. Nelson

Quote of the Day: 6 April 2024 #QotD

“Human beings have a remarkable ability to accept the abnormal and make it normal.” -Ryland Grace, Project Hail Mary
[We are so infinitely adaptable. It is rather remarkable.]

Quote of the Day: 5 April 2024 #QotD

“One searches for truth, but it may be that one pursues instinctively the more extraordinary truths.” -G. K. Chesterton
[This is not inherently bad, as long as we continue to accrue the more mundane truths along the way.]

Quote of the Day: 4 April 2024 #QotD

“I may have had good reasons. I may have had the best of intentions.

“But intentions aren’t enough, no matter how good they are. Intentions can lead you to a place where you’re able to make a choice.

“It’s the choice that counts.” -Harry Dresden, Ghost Story

[As another Harry was told 'it is our choices that count.' It only matters what you intended to have happen if that is what you make happen. If you enact the opposite, your intentions don't matter a whit.]

Quote of the Day: 3 April 2024 #QotD

“Humans aren't interchangeable cogs for some big machine, and every attempt to make them that way usually ends up with some dictator bulldozing lots of people into mass graves.” -Larry Correia
[But there are plenty of folks for whom that is a desirable effect rather than a detriment. They simply don't realize they will be among the first against the wall when the time comes.]

Quote of the Day: 2 April 2024 #QotD

“I don’t go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me.” -Harry Potter, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
[Don't we all usually think that of ourselves. But if we were a bit more introspective or self-aware we could probably admit to ourselves that we do go looking for trouble. At least some of the time.]

Quote of the Day: 1 April 2024 #QotD

“Revolution is a science only a few are competent to practice.… Correctly organized and properly timed it is a bloodless coup. Done clumsily or prematurely and the result is civil war, mob violence, purges, terror.” -Bernardo de la Paz, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
[Happy April Fools Day!

The best way I found to avoid being a fool of the highest order, is not to advocate for revolution. There's a definite chance we replace what we've got with something far worse.]