"Important truths begin as outrageous, or at least uncomfortable, attacks upon the accepted wisdom of the time."
Related:
- As soon as an idea is accepted it is time to reject i
- All great truths begin as blasphemies. -- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), "Annajanska
- A desire not to butt into other people's business is at least eighty
percent of all human wisdom.
.. and the other twenty percent isn't very important.... - The great truths are too important to be new. -- W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)
- If the conjecture `You would rather I had not disturbed you by sending you
this.
' is correct, you may add it to the list of uncomfortable truths. -- Edsger W. Dijkstra... - It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end
as superstitions.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley... - Now is the accepted time. -- New Testament -- 2 Corinthians vi, 2
- Apu: It is an honor to begin repaying my debt to you.
Back in Ramatpur I was considered quite the gourmet....

