“ Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.”Demosthenes
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Excercise your critical faculties - Feel the burn!
critical faculty
crit-i-cal fac-ul-ty
A good working definition would be: The ability to mentally evaluate information, statements, or propositions, to determine if they are accurate, true, or likely.
dojo
do-jo
A school for training in Japanese arts of self-defense, such as judo and karate.
On The Critical Faculty:“It is our only guarantee against delusion, deception, superstition, and misapprehension of ourselves and our earthly circumstances.” William Graham Sumner
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