Extemporaneous musings, occasionally poetic, about life in its richly varied dimensions, especially as relates to history, theology, law, literature, science, by one who is an attorney, ordained minister, historian, writer, and African American.
Thursday, December 1, 2016
AVOID IGNORANT UTTERANCES
AVOID IGNORANT UTTERANCES
Encountering what is novel is no reason to condemn or to belittle it.
Instead, restrain your invective; investigate or study it, until you assuage your former discomfort with more information about it.
Then, you will have benefited by that encounter either way your study may go. If it is found to be credible or not, you gain both ways.
Otherwise, by your spontaneously spouting off at the mouth, you may end up having shown by utterance, your ignorance, your licit pettiness, or your immaturity, to your shame.