Quotes; Points to ponder

Quotes; Points to ponder

By Dr. Sohail Ansari

Conceived and worded by DR Sohail Ansari (originality of concepts and originality of words).

He believes that there can never be a zero scope for improvement and appreciates criticism if it is not for the sake of criticism.

Quotes

·       Scandal-mongering is the treatment of news in an unethical fashion.

·       Attitude makes a stranger familiar and familiar a stranger.

Points to ponder

·       News round- the- clock capture event as it unfolds. Every time a new twist is added, the media tout the new position, thus providing a misleading view, while as a matter of fact; all of these factors have been working in tandem.

·       A demagogue speaks for not saying anything, speech of his is always thrilling and electrifying beginning and ending with a rhetorical question as a terminal flourish.

·       If sensory experience is the only experience in the formation of ideas, then tradition must arise only due to the relations of previous sense experience; but prophets are born and grown up in the culture they oppose by their ideas those run counter to established tradition; and if reports of sensory experience is the exclusive source of all authoritative knowledge, then how this philosophy (empiricism) of science can reject the claim of a religion to have definite answers to questions lie in the domain of metaphysics and cannot be tested by empirical evidence.

·        You cannot talk with people of a phenomenon unless you understand the subjective reality of it as perceived by them; in the same way you cannot understand the actions of people unless you understand them in the light of their beliefs.

·       French philosopher Henri Bergson said, ‘It is we who are passing when we say a time passes’. If this philosopher had a stop watch, he would not have said it.

·       Tendency to earn money in excess to one’s need is creating the risk of the ultimate punishment; growth orientated economics would deliver extinction to all species on earth.

·       Recommendations no matter how good they appear in print, the quality of theirs is judged by work that uses them into solving problems.