A Youthful Perspective on Age-Old Wisdom

In the car, this evening, on the way back from his baseball game, Daniel spontaneously mentioned that the saying, "Don't judge a book by its cover," is not always helpful.  Particularly, he pointed out that if you see the cover, you can probably get a pretty good sense of what the pictures inside it look like.  I asked him how this applies to books that are mostly text, but he didn't really have any thoughts about that.

Then I suggested a revision to the whole don't-judge-a-book thing:  Don't judge a book by the stuff inside it.  I asked Daniel how this new bit of wisdom sounded.

"It sounds terrible."

(April 22, 2015)