(July 4, 2015 at 1:09 am)Huggy74 Wrote:(July 3, 2015 at 12:31 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: You clearly are in need of a good dictionary:My point apparently sailed waaayyy over your head. I was saying Stimbo's quote from Abraham Lincoln (the quote is actually credited to a number of people) was plagiarizing the bible.
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/defini...ctCode=all
Quoting someone and giving them credit for saying it is the antithesis of plagiarism.
"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt." - Abraham Lincoln
"Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding." - Proverbs 17:28
See the similarities?
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They are similar, but importantly different. In Proverbs, the silent person is thought wise. In the Lincoln quote, the silent person is suspected of being a fool. See the difference?
So, they are not saying the same thing at all.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
