Famous quotes containing the words tire and/or option:
“If you set to work to believe everything, you will tire out the believing-muscles of your mind, and then youll be so weak you wont be able to believe the simplest true things.”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (18321898)
“Our passional nature not only lawfully may, but must, decide an option between propositions, whenever it is a genuine option that cannot by its nature be decided on intellectual grounds; for to say, under such circumstances, Do not decide, but leave the question open, is itself a passional decisionjust like deciding yes or noand is attended with the same risk of losing the truth.”
—William James (18421910)
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