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Exploring the Fife Pilgrim Way after 21 years in Belgium – and thoroughly enjoying the journey!
“And when religious sects ran mad,
He held, in spite of all his learning,
That if a man’s belief is bad,
It will not be improv’d by burning.”
– Winthrop Mackworth Praed
“I have never understood … why a solid argument is any less solid because you make the illustrations as entertaining as you can … If you say that two sheep added to two sheep make four sheep, your audience will accept it patiently—like sheep. But if you say it of two monkeys, or two kangaroos, or two sea-green griffins, people will refuse to believe that two and two make four … they cannot believe that anything decorated by an incidental joke can be sensible.”
– G. K. Chesterton
“Beware of telling an improbable truth.”
– Thomas Fuller
He held, in spite of all his learning,
That if a man’s belief is bad,
It will not be improv’d by burning.”
– Winthrop Mackworth Praed
“I have never understood … why a solid argument is any less solid because you make the illustrations as entertaining as you can … If you say that two sheep added to two sheep make four sheep, your audience will accept it patiently—like sheep. But if you say it of two monkeys, or two kangaroos, or two sea-green griffins, people will refuse to believe that two and two make four … they cannot believe that anything decorated by an incidental joke can be sensible.”
– G. K. Chesterton
“Beware of telling an improbable truth.”
– Thomas Fuller
Index
- A good place to start (1)
- Being right and being wrong (3)
- Belgium (3)
- Cause and effect (1)
- Gullibility (2)
- Has Time Been Lost? (1)
- I Think My Wife's A Calvinist (1)
- Large Hadron Collider (1)
- Misunderstandings (2)
- Non-Christmas cards (1)
- Poetry (1)
- Proof (1)
- Prophecy (1)
- Quest magazine (1)
- Sabbath (1)
- Schooldays (6)
- Student days (1)
- Telling the truth (3)
- The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity (1)
- The World Tomorrow (1)
- Unhelpful answers (1)
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