“The examined life is no great shakes either”.
Another from me, on December 10 2021, prompted by entering the April 1 Socrates quotation into the relevant digital file
“This is a bull who carries his own china shop around with him.”
Allan Fotheringham in Ottawa Sun October 29, 1999 (re Bill Vander Zalm, and with justice, but it is true of a great many others and not just politicians)
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
Socrates, quoted in Neil Postman Building a Bridge to the 18th Century (and about 10 million other places)
“The decades ahead will almost certainly be unstable and unpredictable ones…”
The Editors teasing to “findings… from a diverse group of analysts at the RAND Corporation” that take up much of The Atlantic Monthly July-August 2003 issue
“People don’t change when they see the light. They change when they feel the heat.”
“adage, quoted in the New York Times” in “Thought du jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail September 22, 2008
“The vision of a champion is someone who is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when no one else is watching.”
“Anson Dorrance (1951-), coach of women’s soccer at the University of North Carolina” quoted as “Thought du jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail October 27, 2011
“We cannot begin by forming independently a theory of how God is knowable and then seek to test it out or indeed to actualize it and fill it with material content. How God can be known must be determined from first to last by the way in which He actually is known.”
Thomas Torrance in 1969, quoted approvingly in John Polkinghorne The Faith of a Physicist
“he immatures with age”.
Harold Wilson (of Tony Benn) quoted in The Economist July 11, 1992