Quotable Quotes Part II

[Visalakshi Ramani]

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I am Mr vgane

Thanks

Thank you sir!
There was a member (may he still is around incognito) whose name ended in the word Priya.
I automatically assumed it to a girl's /woman's name but it turned out to be a man's name
Hence the precaution.

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

"Hinduism is not bound up with a creed or a book, a prophet or a founder, but is persistent search for truth on the basis of a continuously renewed experience. Hinduism is human thought about God in continuous evolution."

Dr S. Radhakrishnan (1888-1975), Former President of India

Technically speaking Hinduism is not a religion similar to the other religions.

Hinduism is a way of living or a dharma to be practiced by everyone to his /her best capacity.

It gives us complete freedom and shows the right path.

We can progress and evolve depending on our individual sradhdhaa and speed.

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

"In the history of the world, Hinduism is the only religion that exhibits a complete independence and freedom of the human mind, its full confidence in its own powers. Hinduism is freedom, especially the freedom in thinking about God."

Dr S. Radhakrishnan (1888-1975), Former President of India

I remember this example with due reverence and affection.

A boy playing in the beach wanted to keep a handful of sand in his grip.

Tighter his hold became, more and more sand escaped from his hand

and he had hardly a spoonful of sand in his hand in the end.

Another boy filled his palm with sand but did not exert tight grip.

The heap of sand stayed put on his palm.

The same is true of human relationship as well as most other things in life.

Tighter the control and vigilance on us, greater the challenge and the joy in defying them!

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Since our inner experiences consist of reproductions, and combinations of sensory impressions, the concept of a soul without a body seem to me to be empty and devoid of meaning.

Albert Einstein

How about a body without a soul???

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

Albert Einstein

Rewards and punishments are indispensable since apparently

most people can not do the right things on their own free will.

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

For the first half of geological time our ancestors were bacteria. Most creatures still are bacteria, and each one of our trillions of cells is a colony of bacteria.

Richard Dawkins

Bacteria can be either helpful or harmful depending on their type.

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

The world and the universe is an extremely beautiful place, and the more we understand about it the more beautiful does it appear.

Richard Dawkins

Understanding a thing does impart a new dimension to our vision.

The whole perspective will be changed when one begins to understand.

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Genes do indirectly control the manufacture of bodies, and the influence is strictly one way: acquired characteristics are not inherited. No matter how much knowledge and wisdom you acquire during your life, not one jot will be passed on to your children by genetic means. Each new generation starts from scratch.

Richard Dawkins

The acquired knowledge is the only bundle we are allowed to carry with us to our future births

besides the bundle of good and bad karmaas earned during this life.

The children are born with a mind as clean as a new slate.

However they benefit from the favorable environment

that prevails in the place of their birth to learn and evolve.

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Tabula Rasa




“Tabula rasa” is the theory that individuals are born without built-in mental content. All their knowledge comes from experience and perception.

The proponents of the Tabula rasa thesis favor the “nurture” side of the Nature vs Nurture debate, when it comes to aspects of one’s personality, social and emotional behavior, and intelligence.

The term in Latin equivalent to the English “blank slate” or “erased slate”. The word comes from the Roman tabula the wax tablet used for writing notes. The writings were erased or “blanked” by heating the wax and then smoothing it to give a tabula rasa.

Traces of the idea that came to be called the tabula rasa appear as early as the writings of Aristotle. He wrote the first textbook of Psychology in De Anima or On the Soul, Book III, chapter 4.

However the notion of the mind as a blank slate went largely unnoticed for more than 1,000 years.
In the 11th century, the theory of tabula rasa was developed more clearly by the Islamic philosopher, Ibn Sina. He argued that the “human intellect at birth is rather like a tabula rasa, a pure potentiality that is actualized through education and comes to know”.

The knowledge is attained through familiarity with objects in this world from which one abstracts universal concepts.

This is developed through a syllogistic method of reasoning; ” Observations lead to prepositional statements, which when compounded lead to further abstract concepts.”

He further argued that the intellect itself “possesses levels of development from the material intellect, that potentiality can acquire knowledge to the active intellect. The state of the human intellect at conjunction with the perfect source of knowledge.”

In the 12th century, Ibn Tufail demonstrated the theory of tabula rasa as a thought experiment. He depicted the development of the mind of a feral child from a tabula rasa to that of an adult, in complete isolation from society, on a desert island through experience alone.

The translation of his novel entitled Philosophus Autodidactus, published in 1671, had an influence on John Locke’s formulation of tabula rasa in An Essay concerning Human Understanding.

Tabula rasa is also featured in the psychoanalysis of Sigmund Freud. He depicted personality traits as being formed by family dynamics.

Freud’s theories imply that humans lack free will, but also that genetic influences on human personality are minimal. In psychoanalysis, one is largely determined by one’s upbringing.

Tabula rasa is also used by 18th century philosopher Jean-Jacque Rousseau in order to support his argument that warfare is an advent of society and agriculture, rather than something that occurs from the human state of nature.

Since tabula rasa states that humans are born with a “blank-slate” Rousseau uses this to suggest that humans must learn warfare.

The tabula rasa concept became popular in social sciences in the 20th century. The idea that genes (or simply “blood”) determined character took on racist overtones.

By the 1970s, some scientists had come to see gender identity as socially constructed rather than rooted in genetics – a concept still current although strongly contested.

This swing of the pendulum accompanied suspicion of innate differences in general and a propensity to “manage” society, where the real power must be – if people are really born blank.

Source: 23. Tabula Rasa « Adam to Zeus through gods and men

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Parents

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, :hand:
And that is what parents were created for. :tsk:
Ogden Nash

Parentage is a very important profession; :thumb:
but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed
in the interest of the children. eace:
George Bernard Shaw.

 

[vgane]

“Money is like manure. It stinks when you pile it; it grows when you spread it”

J.R.D. Tata (1904-1993)

 

[vgane]

“When you work, work as if everything depends on you. When you pray, pray as if everything depends on God”

J.R.D. Tata (1904-1993)

 

[vgane]

“Cleanliness is the Hallmark of perfect standards and the best quality inspector is the conscience

J.R.D. Tata (1904-1993)

 

[vgane]

“Most of our troubles are due to poor implementation….wrong priorities and unattainable targets”

J.R.D. Tata (1904-1993)

 

[vgane]

“Quality is first engineered; only then it is inspected”

J.R.D. Tata (1904-1993)

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

“Money is like manure. It stinks when you pile it; it grows when you spread it”

J.R.D. Tata (1904-1993)

I think he meant it this way.

'It helps to grow when you spread it.'

Manure itself does not grow but it

makes the others plants grow well.

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

“When you work, work as if everything depends on you. When you pray, pray as if everything depends on God”

J.R.D. Tata (1904-1993)

Sincerity in work as well worship!

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

“Cleanliness is the Hallmark of perfect standards and the best quality inspector is the conscience

J.R.D. Tata (1904-1993)

Truly no one successful can keep far away from
cleanliness (being well organized) and
conscience (being true to oneself and one's work)

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

“Most of our troubles are due to poor implementation….wrong priorities and unattainable targets”

J.R.D. Tata (1904-1993)

Unquestionable business wisdom! :clap2:

I am sure it is equally true of other fields.

I too believe in

Planning out my work and

working out my plans. :thumb:

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

“Quality is first engineered; only then it is inspected”

J.R.D. Tata (1904-1993)

No one can inspect a thing before it has been produced!

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Past

I know no way of judging the future
but by the past. :decision:
Patrick Henry.

Think only of the past as its :happy:
remembrance gives you pleasure.
Jane Austin

Let the past serve the present. :high5:
Mao Tse -Tung

 

[Raghy]

No one can inspect a thing before it has been produced!

Quality engineering is different. All the gauges for inspection are designed and made well before the initial production. Those gauges are made from product drawing itself.

Cheers!

 

[கால பைரவன்]

"In dictatorships one has to howl with the wolves... and in democracies one has to bleat with the sheep" - Hermann Funke

 

[manoharkumar]

Believe in nothing, no matter where you read it, or who has said it, not even if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense. Gautama Buddha.

 

[vgane]

Quality engineering is different. All the gauges for inspection are designed and made well before the initial production. Those gauges are made from product drawing itself.

Cheers!

In fact the Quality Guru Juran has talked about the Quality trilogy of Quality planning, Quality control & Quality Improvement, in that order...We have to start with Quality planning which deals with the inspection process, the tools/gauges used in inspection ...This is the reason for JRD stating that that we need Engineering before inspection