(August 7, 2015 at 1:40 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote:(August 6, 2015 at 9:54 pm)lkingpinl Wrote: Very true. I've heard it a few ways. My favorite was "mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter"
I cribbed mine from that widely esteemed philosopher, Dr Seuss.
He did not say it, though people commonly believe he did:
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dr._Seuss#Misattributed
It was stated by Bernard Baruch (except in reverse order of how you stated it).
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
