September 2009
17 posts
Post hoc ergo propter hoc →
Latin for “after this, therefore because of this”, is a logical fallacy which states, “Since that event followed this one, that event must have been caused by this one.”
“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”
– Winston Churchill
“Do you know that the harder thing to do and the right thing to do are usually...”
– Robert Spritzel (Michael Caine), The Weather Man
“The man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no...”
– Samuel Johnson (via theimpossiblecool)
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
“Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the...”
– Robert Brault
“They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to...”
– Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
“I failed my way to success.”
– Thomas Edison
“What most people need to learn in life is how to love people & use things...”
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you...”
– Mahatma Gandhi
“You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.”
– Jon Kabat-Zinn
“An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.”
– Bonnie Friedman
“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with...”
– Albert Einstein
“Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve...”
– William James
Whistling in the dark →
1. To be confident that something good will happen when it is not at all likely.
2. To make a show of bravery in a frightening situation.
3. To speak of something despite having little knowledge of it.