home.social

#reevaluation — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #reevaluation, aggregated by home.social.

  1. A quotation from Eric Hoffer

    To spell out the obvious is often to call it into question.

    Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
    Passionate State of Mind, Aphorism 220 (1955)

    More about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/17459/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #erichoffer #assumptions #axiom #commonsense #doubt #explanation #obvious #premise #question #questioning #reevaluation #reality #truth #error

  2. A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson

    Because I have reached Paris, I am not ashamed of having passed through Newhaven and Dieppe. They were very good places to pass through, and I am none the less at my destination. All my old opinions were only stages on the way to the one I now hold, as itself is only a stage on the way to something else.

    Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
    Essay (1878-03), “Crabbed Age and Youth,” Cornhill Magazine, Vol. 37

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #RobertLouisStevenson #reevaluation #changeofmind #transition #aging #belief #change #changeofmind #growth #maturity #opinion #progress #reevaluation #selfassessment

  3. A quotation from Davies, Robertson:

    «
    A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity, and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
    »

    Full quote, sourcing, notes:
    wist.info/davies-robertson/340

    #quote #quotes #quotation #age #book #maturity #perspective #rereading #reevaluation #reading #revisit #youth

  4. A quotation from Russell, Bertrand:

    «««««
    In all affairs — love, religion, politics or business — it’s a healthy idea, now and then, to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
    »»»»»

    Full quote, sourcing, notes:
    wist.info/russell-bertrand/338

    #quote #quotes #quotation #acceptance #assumption #axiom #doubt #premise #questioning #reevaluation #reexamination #reexamine #revalidation #skepticism #takingforgranted