"Too much of what is called “education” is little more than an expensive isolation from reality." ― Thomas Sowell Topic(s): Religion More From Thomas Sowell "The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers." "The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive." "If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today." More In Religion "When human judgment and big data intersect there are some funny things that happen."― Nate Silver "India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not so much a religion as a great diversified and yet subtly unified mass of spiritual thought, realization and aspiration."― Sri Aurobindo "The Islam of the 18th, 19th and first half of the 20th century was a poor thing. Nobody bothered about it. Islam was that funny sort of pure system of beliefs that depressed people in the Middle East held as their religion."― John Keegan