"Knowledge comes by taking things apart. But wisdom comes by putting things together."
John A. Morrison, quoted as an "Apercus du jour” in "Social Studies" in Globe and Mail May 20, 2008
“Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.”
D.P. Diffiné, “The 1993 American Incentive System Almanac”
“If ever God is banished from the world so that even His image is eradicated from the human mind, we will cease to be human and become merely very clever animals—and our ultimate fate will be too horrible to contemplate."
Father Karl Rahner, SJ, quoted by Paul Johnson in “The human race: success or failure?” in The New Criterion Vol. 25 (Nov. 2006)
“The main thing is never to act against your conscience, not to put your signature on documents you do not believe in, not to vote for those who you think should not be elected, not to approve decisions, not to applaud, not to pass on lies, not to broadcast them, not to write them, not to put them down on paper, not to pretend … Let your creed be 'Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph, but not through me.'"
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn "Live not by the Lie" quoted by Ian Hunter in National Post August 5, 2008
"If you put new ideas before the eyes of fools/ They’ll think you foolish and worthless into the bargain"
Medea in Euripedes Medea
"Success is just a war of attrition. Sure, there's an element of talent you should probably possess. But if you just stick around long enough, eventually something is going to happen."
Dax Shepard, quoted by Jeff Hayden on Inc. online (www.inc.com/jeff-haden/top-350-inspiring-motivational-quotes-to-tweet-and-share.html
"A useless life is an early death."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"True character is like film, it develops in the dark."
Michael "Pinball" Clemons quoted in Ottawa Citizen November 18, 2004