I didn’t realize I had used it before. I hadn’t done that much commenting; but starting with last set of “Rationality Quotes” I decided to just start working down my Quotes and Aphorisms file; it has been growing for about 14 years now, and I thought I would share some of them.
When somebody makes a statement you don’t understand, don’t tell him he’s crazy. Ask him what he means.
-- H Beam Piper, Space Viking
You must really like that quote.
I didn’t realize I had used it before. I hadn’t done that much commenting; but starting with last set of “Rationality Quotes” I decided to just start working down my Quotes and Aphorisms file; it has been growing for about 14 years now, and I thought I would share some of them.
Now there was a book that was not like what the title would lead you to expect.
In a similar spirit:
“To understand what another person is saying, you must assume that it is true and try to imagine what it could be true of.”
George Miller