Good Stuff

Here are 2 quotes that I think are somewhat amusing, fairly shocking, but altogether too true.

"We must not rely too much on ourselves, for grace and understanding are often lacking in us...Often we are not aware that we are so blind in heart. Meanwhile, we do wrong, and then do worse in excusing it. At times we are moved by passion, and we think it zeal. We take others to task for small mistakes, and overlook greater ones in ourselves. We are quick enough to feel and brood over the things we suffer from others, but we think nothing of how much others suffer from us. If one would weigh their own deeds fully and rightly, they would find little cause to pass severe judgment on others...You will never be devout of heart unless you are thus silent about the affairs of others and pay particular attention to yourself." ~Thomas a'Kempis

"Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion -- and who, therefore, in the next instant (when it is evident that the minority is the stronger) assume its opinion...while truth again reverts to a new minority." ~Soren Kierkegaard

What do you think?