“The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.”
Josh Billings quoted at www.brainyquote.com/quotes/josh_billings_141132
“Study history, study history – in history lie all the secrets of statecraft.”
Winston Churchill to the author, then an 18-year-old exchange student (in the receiving line at the May 1953 Commonwealth Parliamentary Association), quoted in James C. Humes Nixon’s Ten Commandments of Statecraft
“When everybody thinks alike, nobody thinks very much.”
John Carpay to the Economic Education Association of Alberta’s 6th Essentials of Freedom conference Feb. 9 2019
“How come dumb stuff seems so smart while you’re doing it?”
Dennis the Menace, quoted in NCC Overview Winter 2002
“When any calamity has been suffered, the first thing to be remembered, is, how much has been escaped.”
Samuel Johnson, quoted as “Thought du jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail Sept. 29, 2004
“If this physical world is all, then it is a closed hell in which we are confined like prisoners in chains, condemned to watch the other prisoners being slain.”
John Updike quoted in Huston Smith Why Religion Matters
“Drive slowly and enjoy the scenery – drive fast and join the scenery.”
Douglas Horton, quoted on https://www.hound-dog-media.com/2014/01/gamblers-fools-and-egotists-59-still_31.html
“Our life is no dream, but it should and will perhaps become one.”
Novalis, quoted in George Macdonald Lilith