May
31
2005
on being right…..
The Captive Mind - Czeslaw Milosz (the epigraph)
When someone is is 55 oercent right, that’s very good and there’s no wrangling. And if someone is 60 percent right, it’s wonderful, it’s a great luck, and let him thank God. But what’s to be said about 75 percent right? Wise people say that is suspicious. Well, and what about 100 percent right? Whoever says he is 100 percent right is a fanatic, a thug, and the worst kind of rascal.”