"A small mind is obstinate. A great mind can lead and be led." Alexander Cannon (incidentally Cannon seems to have been a quack and a thoroughly bad character, but as C.S. Lewis has an unattractive character observe wisely in The Horse and His Boy, about a sensible comment from someone he despised, "a costly jewel retains its value even if hidden in a dung-hill")

"The question is no longer as Dostoevsky put it: 'Can civilized men believe?' Rather: 'Can unbelieving men be civilized?'" Philip Rieff, The Triumph of the Therapeutic

"Run like you stole something." PGA pro Dicky Pride to his golf ball after a drive, July 30, 1994

"Life will never be risk free, we are happy to report." Bent Flyvbjerg, Nils Bruzelius and Werner Rothengatter, Megaprojects and Risk: An Anatomy of Ambition.

"A man can have too much civilization, just as a man can have too much beer." G.K. Chesterton, quoted in "Chesterton’s Mail Bag" in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 7 #8 (July-August 2004)

"Don’t be afraid to speak up. Remember, whatever you say about the subject and however fallacious it might be, the same thing has already been said by some eminent economist." Ludwig von Mises in a seminar at New York University, as recalled by Murray Rothbard in "The Essential von Mises"

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Socrates in Plato, The Republic

"Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal." Friedrich Nietzsche