“Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.” BrainWorryStupidWasteEvidenceIllControlledWasting TimeCalisthenics Author:Arnold Bennett
“It ill becomes any of us to take the attitude that all evidence for God is false evidence, beneath consideration, simply by virtue of its being evidence for God, or even by virtue of its being outside the purview of science.” AttitudeVirtueEvidenceIllConsideration Book:The Fire in the Equations: Science, Religion, and the Search for God Source: The Fire in the Equations: Science, Religion, and the Search for God
“I think there's some evidence that when it comes to being a doctor or nurse, a police officer or therapist, that empathetic engagement leads to burn-out. Imagine if you're dealing with severely ill children, and you felt their pain all the time, and the pain of their parents - you wouldn't be able to do that job for very long. It would kill you.” IfsThinkingChildrenLongAblePainJobsFeltParentImagineEvidenceDoctorsPoliceIllOfficersEngagementNurseTherapistsPolice OfficerBurn OutEmpathetic Author:Paul Bloom
“I think it's a very stark marker of what kind of president we have that, from all available evidence, Donald Trump has not read a book, as an adult. This is not someone who sits down in the evening to consider the latest bestseller, let alone Tolstoy - but who is very very active on this medium that requires no discipline and no attention and no empathy. It is all about retweeting praise of oneself or very quickly or poorly considered, ill-typed, misspelled diatribes against other people.” PeopleThinkingKindBookPresidentAttentionTrumpDisciplineEmpathyEvidenceAdultsPraiseIllOneselfAvailableActiveMediumsEveningStarksMarkersNo Empathy Author:Ben H. Winters
“Surely what a man does when he is taken off guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is. If there are rats in a cellar, you are most likely to see them if you go in very suddenly. But the suddenness does not create the rats; it only prevents them from hiding. In the same way the suddenness of the provocation does not make me ill tempered; it only shows me what an ill-tempered man I am.” IfsMenWayDoeShowsTakenInspirational LifeEvidenceIllHidingShow MeRatsCellarsProvocationIll Tempered Author:C. S. Lewis
“Wars between states and people seem to have existed under all historical systems for as long as we have some recorded evidence. War is quite clearly not a phenomenon particular to the modern world-system. On the other hand, once again the technological achievements of capitalist civilization serve as much ill as good. One bomb in Hiroshima killed more people than whole wars in pre-modern times. Alexander the Great in his whole sweep of the Middle East could not compare in destructiveness to the impact of the Gulf War on Iraq and Kuwait.” PeopleWorldLongWarStatesWholeHandsSeemsModernMiddleParticularCivilizationAchievementEvidenceCapitalismImpactHistoricalIllIraqEastCompareBombsPhenomenonCapitalistMiddle EastTechnologicalModern WorldHiroshimaModern TimesGulf WarKuwaitDestructiveness Author:Immanuel Wallerstein
“Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness. If men and women practiced mental calisthenics as they do physical calisthenics, they would purge their brains of this foolishness.” IfsMenTimeBrainWorryStupidWasteEvidenceMen And WomenIllStupidityControlledWasting TimeFoolishnessCalisthenics Author:Arnold Bennett