Quote of the Day (Heraclitus, on Stupidity)

“Stupidity is better kept a secret than displayed.”— Ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus (c. 535 BC–475 BC), Fragments

The attached image of Heraclitus was created by Dutch baroque painter Johannes Moreelse (1603-1634).

Quotes of the Day (Heraclitus and Richard Pryor, Offering Radically Different Epistemologies)

“Eyes are more accurate witnesses than ears.”—Heraclitus, Fragments

“Who you gonna believe? Me or your lyin’ eyes?”—Richard Pryor (in the image accompanying this post, of course!), recounting what he told his wife when she found him in flagrante delicto with another woman, in Live on the Sunset Strip (1982)