Rotating Pilgrim » Writing http://www.rotatingpilgrim.com ...to annoy, confuse, debunk, educate, and delight Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:20:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 On turnips and open-mindedness http://www.rotatingpilgrim.com/2009/on-turnips-and-open-mindedness/ http://www.rotatingpilgrim.com/2009/on-turnips-and-open-mindedness/#comments Sun, 30 Aug 2009 17:56:24 +0000 Rotating Pilgrim http://www.rotatingpilgrim.com/?p=133

“No man ought to write at all, or even to speak at all, unless he thinks that he is in truth and the other man in error.” [and] “But if there be such a thing as mental growth, it must mean the growth into more and more definite convictions, into more and more dogmas. The human brain is a machine for coming to conclusions; if it cannot come to conclusions it is rusty. Trees have no dogmas. Turnips are singularly broad-minded.”

- G.K. Chesterton

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“No man ought to write at all, or even to speak at all, unless he thinks that he is in truth and the other man in error.” [and] “But if there be such a thing as mental growth, it must mean the growth into more and more definite convictions, into more and more dogmas. The human brain is a machine for coming to conclusions; if it cannot come to conclusions it is rusty. Trees have no dogmas. Turnips are singularly broad-minded.”

- G.K. Chesterton

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