Some probably certainties from Joel Miller

If your Christianity doesn’t leave a mark, then you’re doing it wrong.

If you don’t discipline yourself, others will.

If you don’t learn from history, you’re like most people.

To affirm one thing is to negate many others.

To speak at all is to speak falsely.

To do at all is to do wrongly.

Doubting someone’s sincerity doesn’t make them insincere.

Ill will toward others hurts mainly you.

Life is more than money, and anyone who says differently probably wants your money.

There’s nothing like the scarcity of fame to make people grasping and ungrateful.

Nobody is damned until they are.

Sloppy writing is a solid indicator of sloppy thinking.

Events cannot be undone, but most of them can be redeemed.

There’s no such thing as an exact comparison, especially among people and events. So don’t fool yourself.

Data can make you both confident and foolish.

via Things I’m pretty certain are true | Joel J. Miller.

The only thing I’ve grown to question is the one about being ignorant of history (it doesn’t say this is a bad thing, but I’m assuming it is an assumption behind the statement!). The last one about data making you confident and foolish seems to me to apply readily to the quest to gain knowledge of history, as well as the warning against exact comparisons.

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