On 7/3/07, pippa258 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Judy Ryder wrote: > > I don't understand, tho, why people take offense at the learning process. > > > The reason is right in your byline =-O > > "All truth passes through three stages. > > First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. > > Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." ~ Arthur Schopenhauer > Unfortunately, some are stuck in the second level for quite a while! > > Trish >
I like the way its said at the beginning of my favorite novel of all time "A Confederacy of Dunces", just paraphrasing, he says anytime a true genius appears it brings out a confederacy of dunces in protest-- janice yipie tie yie yo