“No man was ever wise by chance”
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA, quoted as standalone “WORDS OF WISDOM” (not further attributed) in Epoch Times email December 6, 2021
“When you’re directionless, you only go one way.”
OK, it's me again, from December 20, 2015. (When I went to enter the source I had forgotten it was me, if it makes quoting myself any less vain.)
“Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.”
Thomas Edison’s “much quoted statement” quoted by his son Charles in William Bennett The Book of Virtues
“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 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
“something has to be overcome before we can cut up a dead man or a live animal in a dissecting room…. We do not look at trees either as Dryads or as beautiful objects while we cut them into beams: the first man who did so may have felt the price keenly, and the bleeding trees in Virgil and Spenser may be far-off echoes of that primeval sense of impiety. The stars lost their divinity as astronomy developed, and the Dying God has no place in chemical agriculture.”
C.S. Lewis The Abolition of Man