Ted
@whiteknucklingit.bsky.social
Trying to find sanity among the insanity.
Mostly posting positive things.
Quotes, travel, photography, bikes/ebikes, boating, nature.
Mostly posting positive things.
Quotes, travel, photography, bikes/ebikes, boating, nature.
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Ted
@whiteknucklingit.bsky.social
· Nov 24
Sit by my side, and let the world slip: we shall ne'er be younger.
- William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew
- William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew
Opportunities are multiplied as they are seized.
- Sun Tzu (544-496 BC)
Chinese general and philosopher
- Sun Tzu (544-496 BC)
Chinese general and philosopher
February 16, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Opportunities are multiplied as they are seized.
- Sun Tzu (544-496 BC)
Chinese general and philosopher
- Sun Tzu (544-496 BC)
Chinese general and philosopher
Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
-14th Dalai Lama (1940- )
-14th Dalai Lama (1940- )
February 9, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
-14th Dalai Lama (1940- )
-14th Dalai Lama (1940- )
Are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honor and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul, which you never regard or heed at all?
-Socrates (470?-399BC)
Greek philosopher
-Socrates (470?-399BC)
Greek philosopher
February 9, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honor and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul, which you never regard or heed at all?
-Socrates (470?-399BC)
Greek philosopher
-Socrates (470?-399BC)
Greek philosopher
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest execises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
- H.L. Mencken (1880-1956)
American essayist and journalist
- H.L. Mencken (1880-1956)
American essayist and journalist
January 31, 2025 at 5:03 PM
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest execises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
- H.L. Mencken (1880-1956)
American essayist and journalist
- H.L. Mencken (1880-1956)
American essayist and journalist
Let me write the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws.
- Andrew Fletcher (1655-1716)
Scottish patriot
- Andrew Fletcher (1655-1716)
Scottish patriot
January 31, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Let me write the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws.
- Andrew Fletcher (1655-1716)
Scottish patriot
- Andrew Fletcher (1655-1716)
Scottish patriot
Reposted by Ted
This I love. And resemble more each day.
January 29, 2025 at 11:21 PM
This I love. And resemble more each day.
Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace, to be real, must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
January 24, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace, to be real, must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people to ignorance.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
3rd President of the US
In a letter to George Wythe, 1786
- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
3rd President of the US
In a letter to George Wythe, 1786
January 24, 2025 at 4:20 PM
The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people to ignorance.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
3rd President of the US
In a letter to George Wythe, 1786
- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
3rd President of the US
In a letter to George Wythe, 1786
A fall into a ditch makes you wiser.
- Chinese proverb
- Chinese proverb
January 23, 2025 at 3:47 PM
A fall into a ditch makes you wiser.
- Chinese proverb
- Chinese proverb
If you can’t fly, run; if you can’t run, walk; if you can’t walk, crawl; but by all means keep moving.
–Martin Luther King Jr.
–Martin Luther King Jr.
January 21, 2025 at 12:36 AM
If you can’t fly, run; if you can’t run, walk; if you can’t walk, crawl; but by all means keep moving.
–Martin Luther King Jr.
–Martin Luther King Jr.
The smallest good deed is better than the grandest good intention.
- Japanese proverb
- Japanese proverb
January 19, 2025 at 4:28 PM
The smallest good deed is better than the grandest good intention.
- Japanese proverb
- Japanese proverb
Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.
- Dalai Lama (1935- )
14th Dalai Lama
- Dalai Lama (1935- )
14th Dalai Lama
January 18, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.
- Dalai Lama (1935- )
14th Dalai Lama
- Dalai Lama (1935- )
14th Dalai Lama
Reposted by Ted
@gavinnewsom.bsky.social on Mike Johnson considering conditioning disaster aid: "Never in California did we question whether or not we, as taxpayers in the largest state in the Union, should support the people of Louisiana at a time of emergency and need. We’d never condition it."
January 16, 2025 at 7:37 PM
@gavinnewsom.bsky.social on Mike Johnson considering conditioning disaster aid: "Never in California did we question whether or not we, as taxpayers in the largest state in the Union, should support the people of Louisiana at a time of emergency and need. We’d never condition it."
Dogmatism and scepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is *certainty*, whether of knowledge or ignorance.
- Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
British mathematician, philosopher
- Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
British mathematician, philosopher
January 16, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Dogmatism and scepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is *certainty*, whether of knowledge or ignorance.
- Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
British mathematician, philosopher
- Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
British mathematician, philosopher
The traffic lights, they turn blue tomorrow
And shine their emptiness down on my bed
The tiny island sags downstream
'Cause the life that lived is dead
- Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970)
"The Wind Cries Mary"
And shine their emptiness down on my bed
The tiny island sags downstream
'Cause the life that lived is dead
- Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970)
"The Wind Cries Mary"
January 16, 2025 at 12:45 AM
The traffic lights, they turn blue tomorrow
And shine their emptiness down on my bed
The tiny island sags downstream
'Cause the life that lived is dead
- Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970)
"The Wind Cries Mary"
And shine their emptiness down on my bed
The tiny island sags downstream
'Cause the life that lived is dead
- Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970)
"The Wind Cries Mary"
If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.
- Buddha
- Buddha
January 15, 2025 at 12:37 AM
If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.
- Buddha
- Buddha
Paris view with digital processing.
January 14, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Paris view with digital processing.
In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering.
As a rule, we disbelieve all facts and theories for which we have no use.
Religion, in short, is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
- William James (1842-1910)
American psychologist, philosopher
As a rule, we disbelieve all facts and theories for which we have no use.
Religion, in short, is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
- William James (1842-1910)
American psychologist, philosopher
January 14, 2025 at 3:16 AM
In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering.
As a rule, we disbelieve all facts and theories for which we have no use.
Religion, in short, is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
- William James (1842-1910)
American psychologist, philosopher
As a rule, we disbelieve all facts and theories for which we have no use.
Religion, in short, is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
- William James (1842-1910)
American psychologist, philosopher