Putting Up With Imbeciles - by TPO

Putting Up With Imbeciles
by TPO
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"Listen to me, imbecile. If the Treasury is important, then human life is not. This is clear. All those who think like you ought to admit this reasoning and count their lives for nothing because they hold money for everything."
-Albert Camus
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“Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.”
-Mark Twain
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"I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest."
-Alexander Dumas
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“When a finger points to the moon, the imbecile looks at the finger.”
- A Chinese proverb
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"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits."
-Albert Einstein
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"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"There is no sin except stupidity."
-Oscar Wilde
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"Never underestimate the power of human stupidity."
-Robert A. Heinlein
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"Stupidity is a talent for misconception."
-Edgar Allan Poe
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"In politics stupidity is not a handicap."
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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"Stupidity has a knack of getting its way."
-Albert Camus
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"Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity."

-Michel de Montaigne

A Quandary? - by TPO

A Quandary? *
by TPO
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      [Question: Who knows best?
           Answer: The self knows best.]

Once, there were three brothers who went to different universities for their education. Each came back with a different wisdom. One developed a television-like unit that could see great distances. The second invented an air travel machine that traversed great distances in no time at all. The third brother discovered a natural healing formula which could cure a broad variety of maladies.

One day while viewing his video screen, the first brother discovered that a King’s daughter was deathly ill. The youngest brother immediately contacted his sibling who transported him and his elixir to the capital city. The treatment was effective and the princess returned to good health. The elated monarch offered her hand in marriage to one of the team of heroes.

"Had I not seen the problem on my video the worst would have happened," claimed the first brother. "Without the speed of my aircraft we would have arrived at the palace too late," said the second.

"Yes," agreed the youngest. "However without my medicine nothing could have saved her."

The King, seeing some validity in each argument, turned to the princess and asked her to choose.

"As far as the past is concerned, you all contributed to my salvation," the wise princess observed. "But as far as my future is concerned, should I suffer a relapse, it is the elixir that I will need."

She therefore chose the brother who had developed the miracle cure.

         [Note: In the final analysis, it was only the princess who could and should give the 
resolution to the dilemma in this tale. She, herself, was the sole affected party.]
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* Source: Rabbi Raymond Beyda
http://www.torah.org/learning/tabletalk/5767/kedoshim.html