Wed, Sep 8, 2027

I have no quarrel with the general attitude of scoffing at new ideas. It is better to be skeptical of all new ideas and to insist upon being shown rather than to rush around in a continuous brainstorm after every new idea. Skepticism, if by that we mean cautiousness, is the balance wheel of civilization. Most of the present acute troubles of the world arise out of taking on new ideas without first carefully investigating to discover if they are good ideas. An idea is not necessarily good because it is old, or necessarily bad because it is new, but if an old idea works, then the weight of the evidence is all in its favor. Ideas are of themselves extraordinarily valuable, but an idea is just an idea. Almost any one can think up an idea. The thing that counts is developing it into a practical product.

Source： https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7213
Excerpt 2

This is a direct reading: the original and source are kept; commentary will be added later.

子貢曰：「我不欲人之加諸我也，吾亦欲無加諸人。」子曰：「賜也，非爾所及也！」

Source： https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/%E8%AB%96%E8%AA%9E/%E5%85%AC%E5%86%B6%E9%95%B7%E7%AC%AC%E4%BA%94
公冶長第五·五之十二

This is a direct reading: the original and source are kept; commentary will be added later.

大夫曰：「春秋之法，君親無將，將而必誅。故臣罪莫重於弒君，子罪莫重於弒父。日者，淮南、衡山修文學，招四方遊士，山東儒、墨咸聚於江、淮之間，講議集論，著書數十篇。然卒於背義不臣，使謀叛逆，誅及宗族。晁錯變法易常，不用制度，迫蹙宗室，侵削諸侯，蕃臣不附，骨肉不親，吳、楚積怨，斬錯東市，以慰三軍之士而謝諸侯。斯亦誰殺之乎？」

Source： https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/%E9%B9%BD%E9%90%B5%E8%AB%96/%E5%8D%B702
卷2·晁錯第八·第1则

This is a direct reading: the original and source are kept; commentary will be added later.

孟子曰：「西子蒙不潔，則人皆掩鼻而過之。雖有惡人，齋戒沐浴，則可以祀上帝。」

Source： https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/%E5%AD%9F%E5%AD%90/%E9%9B%A2%E5%A9%81%E4%B8%8B
離婁下·25

This is a direct reading: the original and source are kept; commentary will be added later.

During all this time I kept my position with the electric company and gradually advanced to chief engineer at a salary of one hundred and twenty-five dollars a month. But my gas-engine experiments were no more popular with the president of the company than my first mechanical leanings were with my father. It was not that my employer objected to experiments--only to experiments with a gas engine. I can still hear him say: "Electricity, yes, that's the coming thing. But gas--no."

Source： https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7213
Chapter II, excerpt 21

This is a direct reading: the original and source are kept; commentary will be added later.