“There is nothing more frightening than ignorance in action.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in “Quote of the Week in “The Week That Was: 2011-11-20” on Watt’s Up With That (https://wattsupwiththat.com)
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion with one’s courage.”
Anaïs Nin, quoted in Epoch Times email newsletter November 22, 2021
“Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.”
Jim Rohn, quoted by Jeff Hayden on Inc. online (www.inc.com/jeff-haden/top-350-inspiring-motivational-quotes-to-tweet-and-share.html)
“This means open war between men, in which everyone is obliged to take sides, either with the dogmatists or with the sceptics, because anyone who imagines he can stay neutral is a sceptic par excellence.”
Blaise Pascal Pensées
“He has the strangeness of ten.”
Quoting myself again - I don’t recall when this insult first occurred to me, but it has done so frequently since.
“The object of all human life is play. I for one wish we did not have to fritter away time on frivolous things, like lectures and literature, the time we might have given to serious, solid and constructive work like cutting out cardboard figures and pasting colored tinsel upon them.”
G.K. Chesterton quoted by Robert Moore-Jumonville in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 3 #5 (March 2000)
“Depend on it that if a man talks of his misfortunes, there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery, there never is any recourse to the mention of it.”
Samuel Johnson, quoted as “Thought du jour” in Globe & Mail January 31, 2003
In my latest Epoch Times column I say the real danger facing Canada isn’t tyranny but anarchy, with governments full of meddlesome ambition so lost in make-believe they freeze facing real-world problems.