"Do as you would be done by" bible

Oh, so if I wouldn't mind it if she squeezed my leg then I can squeeze hers? It's a molester's charter. Should be 'don't do as you would be done by - others aren't you".

"The only source of knowledge is experience" Einstein.

No it isn't. After all, if that were true, then it would not be known by experience and thus would be false. And as well as being self-refuting, it is clearly false, as knowledge requires epistemic reasons - a proposition is 'known' when it is true, believed, and there is epistemic reason to believe it - yet epistemic reasons are not known by experience, but are known by rational reflection. What an idiot!

"You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than a year of conversation" Plato.

Well, that's incredibly implausible. If you talk to someone for a year - a year! - you'll learn a hell of a lot about them. Whereas if you watch someone play for an hour you'll learn virtually nothing apart from about their skill and interest in that game. Really stupid.

"live as if you're going to die tomorrow; learn as if you're going to live forever" Gandhi.

Why? Why on earth would you do either of those things, much less both?!? I mean, if I am going to die tomorrow, then I'd spend today fretting about it and I'll be incredibly distracted and upset and in a bad mood. I certainly wouldn't bother trying to learn anything as if I'm going to live forever - for I am going to die tomorrow! It's just stupid.

"I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become" Jung.

Well, the first bit is correct - you're obviously not what happens to you, for what happens to you happens to 'you', and you are the you bit, not the happenings. So, the first bit is correct, but it is a bit like saying "I am not the number 3" - it's kinda obvious and doesn't need stating. But the second bit is every bit as confused as thinking that one is what happens to oneself. You're not what you choose to become, you are the thing making that choice. I mean, obviously! Let's say I choose to become what happens to me. What then, eh Jung? What a fool.

"Life begins at 40".

No it doesn't. By hypothesis, if you're 40 you've already been alive for at least 40 years.

"I am the wisest man alive, for I know that I know one thing: that I know nothing" Never said by Socrates, but often attributed to him by those who haven't read him.

Obviously self-contradictory. If you know one thing, then you don't know nothing. Christ.

"It is better to know some of the questions, than all of the answer" (Thurber).

No it isn't. If you know all the answers you're clearly better off than just knowing some of the questions. You ask a question to find out the answers, for goodness sake! What a berk.

"Only when the last tree has been cut down, and the last fish caught, will we realize that we cannot eat money" (proverb).

Well, strictly speaking you can eat money, it is just not very pleasant tasting and has minimal nutritional value. But anyway, most of us are well aware that money is not much good as a foodstuff regardless of how many trees there are or fish there are. I mean, there's really no relationship between how many trees one has cut down and how many fish one has caught and one's knowledge of the inedibility of money, so far as I can see.

"The time you enjoyed wasting was not wasted time" Russell.

Yes it was, by definition. You enjoyed wasting it. So it was wasted. He should have said that the time you enjoyed appearing to waste, was not in fact wasted time.

Some that are true:

"I think, therefore I am". Descartes.

Yes, seems correct, though there's a missing premise.

"Everything is what it is and not another thing" Butler.

Yes, that is surely true.