“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
~ John Locke
A little of this. A little of that.
“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
~ John Locke
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
~ Sandra Carey
Born: September 15, 1890 – Died: January 12, 1976
“Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.”
~ Leo Tolstoy
He’s known as the ‘why’ man, for he is always asking the why of everything.
“I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.” – Robert McCloskey
“Knowledge is like underwear. It is useful to have it, but not necessary to show it off.” – Nicky Gumbel
The idea that the poor should have
leisure has always been shocking
to the rich.
Bertrand Russell, In praise of
Idleness and other essays
“Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.”
– Confucius
“The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.”
-Chinua Achebe
Born: November 16, 1930
Nigerian poet, novelist, professor and critic
There is a town in Newfoundland, Canada called Dildo.
Source: tealdragon
Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn’t wear pants.
Source: tealdragon
Found in the email inbox:
A Translation Of Yankee Dogs To Southern Dawgs – To all you
dog lovers out there and those who understand the difference
between Yankees and Southerners…
(Yankee) German Shepherd Dog
(Southern) Poh-leece Dawg
(Yankee) Poodle
(Southern) Circus Dawg
(Yankee) St. Bernard
(Southern) “Thank Gawd, Here Comes The Whiskey Dawg”
(Yankee) Doberman Pinscher
(Southern-2 versions) Bad Dawg, or Dobimin Pinches
(Yankee) Beagle
(Southern) Rabbit Dawg
(Yankee) Rottweiler
(Southern) Bad Dawg AND Mean As Heck Dawg. Good dawg
to gu ard the still.
(Yankee) Yellow Lab
(Southern) Ol’ Yeller Dawg
(Yankee) Black Lab
(Southern) Duck fetchin’ Dawg
(Yankee) Greyhound
(Southern) Greased Lightnin’ Dawg
(Yankee) Malinois
(Southern) Another kind of Poh-leece Dawg
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According to the Oxford Dictionary: “Vape” is the 2014 word of the year.
Vape is a verb meaning “inhale and exhale the vapour produced by an electronic cigarette or similar device.”
Source: http://www.boston.com
“If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.”
– Jiddu Krishnamurti
Even as the Internet has revived hope of a universal library and Google seems to promise an answer to every query, books have remained a dark region in the universe of information. We want books to be as accessible and searchable as the Web. On the other hand, we still want them to be books.
Gary Wolf
American Journalist
“I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion”
– Alexander the Great
When I was listening to the radio this morning, the mid-morning, early-afternoon DJ, announcer or whatever they are called, was making mention of Autumn beginning this Saturday, the 20th. Well, it does not start on that date. It is September 23, the same day as my late father’s birthday was. Then about an hour later she said the same thing again, about the date that Autumn begins.
I was tempted to take a wake over to the radio station, which is just around the corner from where I live, and tell her or someone to tell when the correct date is. I mean, is it too much to take a look at the calendar to see what day the new season begins.
Its just one of those things in life that bugs the shit out of me.
A Pondering Mind 9/15/2014
Barbie’s measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.
Source: tealdragon
The first toilet ever seen on television
was on “Leave It To Beaver.”
Source: tealdragon
Opinion is the medium between
knowledge and ignorance.
Plato
No word in the English language rhymes with mouth, orange, silver, and purple.
Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.
Source: tealdragon.net
From the email inbox:
Got to love this kid…
Knowledge of what is does not
open the door directly to what
should be.
— Albert Einstein
Knowledge without wisdom is a load
of books on the back of an ass.
— Japanese Proverb
We eat
We cook
We drink
We sleep
We talk
We walk
We read
We go to school
We study
We work
We play
We travel
We write
We type
We draw
We watch TV
We go to movies
We drive
We fly
We ride
We discuss
We argue
We laugh
We smile
We cry
All the things we do or, for some people some of them.
We’re all human, and since we’re on this planet for a very short time, we should enjoy everything we do.
It’s what makes life on Earth interesting.
A Pondering Mind 2014
Ben and Jerry’s sends the waste from making ice cream to local pig farmers to use as feed. Pigs love the stuff, except for one flavor: Mint Oreo.
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
Source: http://www.tealdragon.net/
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
– Socrates
“Through zeal, knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal,
knowledge is lost; let a man who knows the double path of
gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow.”
-Buddha
Source: TheFabWeb
A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night.
Source: tealdragon.net
All of the cobble stones used to line the streets in New York were originally stones found in the hulls of Belgian ships ballast.
Source: did-you-knows.com
The Chinese used fingerprints as a method of identification as far back as AD 700.
Source: did-you-knows.com
Coffee is the most popular beverage worldwide with over 400 billion cups consumed each year.
Source: did-you-knows.com
There are 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 (quintillion) different color combinations possible on a Rubik’s Cube.
Source: did-you-knows.com
When lightning strikes it can reach up to 30,000 degrees celsius (54,000 degrees fahrenheit).
Source: did-you-knows.com
The oldest word in the English language is ‘town.’
Source: did-you-knows.com
Arachibutyrophobia is fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth.
Source: did-you-knows.com
The word ‘lethologica’ describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
Source: did-you-knows.com
The word ‘testify’ derived from a time when men were required to swear on their testicles.
Source: did-you-knows.com
When commercial telephone service was introduced between New York and London in 1927, the first three minutes of a call cost $75.00.
Source: freewebs.com/thesilentteen/randomfacts.htm
One-fourth of the people who lose their sense of smell also lose their desire for sexual relations.
Source: freewebs.com/thesilentteen/randomfacts.htm
The bubbles in Guinness beer sink to the bottom – no one knows why.
Source: freewebs.com/thesilentteen/randomfacts.htm
Canadians eat more Kraft macaroni and cheese packaged dinners than any nationality in the world.
Source: freewebs.com/thesilenteen/randomfacts
White Out was invented by the mother of Mike Nesmith (formerly of the Monkees).
Source: tealdragon.net
Women are 37% more likely to go to a psychiatrist than men are.
Source: cs.cmu.edu
Canada is an Indian word meaning “Big Village”.
Source: tealdragon.net
315 entries in Webster’s Dictionary will be misspelled.
Source: randomfactsblog
Barbie’s measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.
Source: tealdragon.net
The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
Source: tealdragon.net
Since 1495, no 25-year period has been without war.
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Source: randomfactsblog
It takes about seven minutes for the average person to fall asleep.