Some interesting thoughts....

Since we have had some very heated discussions from the many experts on the forum (we are all experts in our own mind aren't we) here are some thoughts from people a whole lot smarter than me that may have some relevance. Nothing earth shattering here....they just seem appropriate.

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything. -Thomas Alva Edison

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few. -Shunryu Suzuki

He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I ever met. -Abraham Lincoln

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. -Euripides

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. -Bertrand Russell

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. -Rodin

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. -F. Scott Fitzgerald

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education. -Albert Einstein

Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all. -Charles Babbage

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. -Douglas Adams

We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion. -Georg Hegel

By doubting we come at truth. -Cicero

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind. -Samuel Johnson

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. -Friedrich Engels

Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong. -David Fasold

You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment. -Alvin Toffler

It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious. -Alfred North Whitehead

He is educated who knows how to find out what he doesn't know. -George Simmel

Hell, there are no rules here—we're trying to accomplish something. -Thomas A. Edison

All truth passes through 3 stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. -Arthur Schopenhauer

We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong. -Bill Vaughn

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. -Galileo Galilei

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows. -Epictetus