billswift comments on Rationality Quotes: February 2011

billswift 1 Feb 2011 19:55 UTC
15 points

Too broad a viewpoint, too philosophical an outlook paralyzes the will.

-- Robert A Heinlein, Lost Legacy
- sketerpot 2 Feb 2011 5:01 UTC
  20 points
  Parent
  
  Go not to the elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.
  
  -- Frodo Baggins, conveying one of the many wise sayings that Hobbits chuck around daily. The elf he was talking with thought it was hilarious, but refused to simply agree or disagree with it.
  - mwengler 2 Feb 2011 20:12 UTC
    5 points
    Parent
    I prefer its negation: “Go to the elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.”