George Vincent quotes

So few of us really think. What we do is rearrange our prejudges.
-- George Vincent

#Thinking #Rationality

Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'

Americans think the only funny Brits are John Cleese, Benny Hill and whoever makes our toothpaste. They're not laughing with us, they are laughing at us.

A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.

Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.

Fear is born of Satan, and if we would only take time to think a moment we would see that everything Satan says is founded upon a falsehood.

I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.

Rationality will not save us.

Nothing sedates rationality like large doses of effortless money.

The rationality of the ruled is always the weapon of the rulers.

Humans were eventually irrational creatures gifted with the power of rationality.