Priceless Praise

Love your enemies, for in their insults is their envy that is priceless praise.

Left Darwin

There you have it. Liberal gender governance and management by social statistics. Imagine applying this to areas of talent. Let's say sports. Gender integrated basketball teams where everyone makes the same amount of money. And the arts! There would be the same number of potters, for instance, for each gender with equal gallery showings and, of course, sales and earnings (the public be damned). Ah, and scientists are a gender ratio problem, too. Equal gender distribution with equal pay. No deviation!

What's very queer about Liberal thinking is that it fawns so much over Darwin then rudely ignores him in public practice.

Voters

The problem isn't that a rat runs for public office telling voters it's a gerbil. Voters see it's a rat, agree it's a gerbil, and vote it into office to eventually discover to their horror it's a rat.

you and the unconscionable liar

Avoid unconscionable liars. They cannibalize reputation, property, and money. They steal past, present and future.

the fragile intangible

Trust is the most fragile of human intangibles.

honesty

Honesty is sense in judgement, knowing right from wrong, doing what is expected, telling the truth, doing the truth, and accepting it.

foxes and the hound of truth

We are foxes, and when the hound of truth catches us he will grip us firmly in his teeth and not let us go until his master comes and decides.

shilling trust

Whatever a man's distinction, be they breeding, education, drive, charm, or entrusted responsibilities, they may be given too much esteem and account a man too well. Such distinctions can lead to unwarranted regard. Consider the apostles. Eleven of the twelve never suspected their treasurer of treachery.

how a story is told

When events are the result of lies, duplicities, and deceptions, they become complicated stories to tell. They require much fore-thought, organization and effort to explain. Honesty, truth and integrity may have their mysteries, but the stories that result are always straight-forward and simple.

simply unassuming

Truth is unequal to all men know. It has no time, yet within the reality of men is its own place. Truth acquires from all, yet learns nothing from us and willingly allows us to draw from it. Oath, shrine, fane or convention cannot bind truth, yet it can be found in these. Truth is not made. It simply is.

lie in power

People occasionally need power, and in a lie they acquire it quickly. In deed, in an instant. Sadly they do not realize that the power is not in them but in the lie. They ride the tiger of their creation but are not its master; fall and they are its prey.

belief is not a truth

Belief is not a truth.

Belief is the commitment to and investment in a proposition that may or may not be true.

associates and well-wishers

Lies have many more associates in this world than truth. Truth, however, has many more well-wishers.

truth

Truth is a discreet, differentiated recognition of reality which is validated by the retention of its identity in spit of perspectives. Truth is predicateless, yet all things and their predicates can be identified with truth.

handle with care

Truth is like a sharp, double edge knife without a handle. It will cut him who holds it as easily as the one he hopes to cut.

irritating truths and pleasing lies

Better the company of irritating truths than pleasing lies.

lying paradox

A lie disposes of truth like trash yet hides it like treasure.