“Error is ever the sequence of haste.”
The Duke of Wellington according to AZ Quotes [https://www.azquotes.com/author/15482-Duke_of_Wellington]
“Nothing that works is silly...”
Nessus (the puppeteer) in Larry Niven Ringworld
“Educate men without religion and you make them clever devils.”
The Duke of Wellington according to AZ Quotes [https://www.azquotes.com/author/15482-Duke_of_Wellington]
“‘I try to be, as G.K. Chesterton once wrote, ‘wise enough to be made a fool of.’”
Susan Cheever in Newsday November 12, 2002 p. B02, quoted in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 7 #1 (9/03)
“My rule always was to do the business of the day in the day.”
The Duke of Wellington according to AZ Quotes [https://www.azquotes.com/author/15482-Duke_of_Wellington] [and yes, I’m on an Iron Duke binge because I’d long admired him but had no idea he’d uttered so many bon mots, if he’ll pardon my French].
“Like Jordan Baker, people with self-respect have the courage of their mistakes.”
Joan Didion Slouching Toward Bethlehem
“Christianity, if false, is of no importance and, if true, is of infinite importance. The one thing it cannot be is moderately important.”
– C.S. Lewis, quoted on https://twitter.com/CSLewisDaily/status/1595888784704507905
In my latest Loonie Politics column I say a suggestion by a university psychologist, somewhat surprisingly, helps illuminate the frustrating way liberals and conservatives think, talk and shout past one another.