Quote of the Day: 11 January 2025 #QotD

“[C]leverness kills wisdom; that is one of the few sad and certain things.” -G. K. Chesterton
[There are so many instances of clever people falling in love with foolish ideas because they appear clever. Never mind the ideas that have already been shown to be failures that these folks are convinced should be possible anyway.]

Quote of the Day: 10 January 2025 #QotD

“You’re in America now. Our idea of diplomacy is showing up with a gun in one hand and a sandwich in the other and asking which you’d prefer.” -Harry Dresden, Turn Coat
[When I first read this I found it amusing, or even funny. Now, it seems a bit more realistic, while retaining the humor.]

Quote of the Day: 9 January 2025 #QotD

“Yes. The ATF actually tried to say that holding something wrong was a felony.” -Larry Correia
[But then, can you really trust the ATF about anything? They're as likely to lie to you as to tell the truth, and even if you get a true answer, they still might change their mind on you and turn you into a felon overnight without your knowledge.]

Quote of the Day: 8 January 2025 #QotD

“I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being – forgive me – rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger.” -Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
[Cleverness is not the same thing as wisdom, and clever folks are as likely to end up being wrong as most other people, just with far more impactful errors.]

Quote of the Day: 7 January 2025 #QotD

“As they keep telling you in Basic, doing something constructive at once is better than figuring out the best thing to do hours later.” -Cpl. Juan Rico (thought), Starship Troopers
[Decisive action, that isn't optimal, is still better than no action or even delayed action that is otherwise optimal.]

Quote of the Day: 6 January 2025 #QotD

“Tears released poisons from inside, poisons which if not released could be as deadly as the real kind.” -Tom Clancy
[Repressing your negative emotions is not healthy. It'll lead you to dangerous ends.]

Quote of the Day: 5 January 2025 #QotD

“We all need to be lifted up by the Lord with peace, with comfort, and most of all with personal revelation to counter the fear, darkness, and contention encompassing the world.” -Ronald A. Rasband

Quote of the Day: 4 January 2025 #QotD

“He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt[.]” -Joseph Heller
[Sometimes, you just have to spit in the face of reality and attempt to actualize a new reality.]

Quote of the Day: 3 January 2025 #QotD

“Perhaps denial of mass atrocity is tied to our innate resistance to killing.” -Dave Grossman
[Perhaps, or perhaps it is that we don't wish to think that a human is capable of such things so that we don't think that we are capable of those things.]

Quote of the Day: 2 January 2025 #QotD

“[R]aising children is, in a sense, the reason the society exists in the first place.” -Ian Malcolm, The Lost World
[So, how do we structure society to best meet that end? We ought to support parents in making decisions about their children and encourage people to have children in the first place. But, that certainly doesn't mean that we socialize parenthood.]

Quote of the Day: 1 January 2025 #QotD

“We are the stories we tell to ourselves. Nothing more.” -Livira, The Book That Wouldn’t Burn
[Happy New Year!

Since this is a time of new beginnings, perhaps consider what story you're telling yourself about yourself, and whether that's the story you really want to be telling.]