“It ain’t what a man don’t know as makes him a fool, but what he does know that ain’t so.”
The “homely wisdom of Josh Billings (1818-1885)” quoted in Daniel Boorstin Cleopatra’s Nose
“Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute.”
“British novelist G. B. Stearn” quoted as “Thought du jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail November 15, 2007
“the Doctrine of Evolution has not furnished guidance to the extent I had hoped.”
Herbert Spencer on the question of ethics and morality, quoted in Famous Last Words calendar July 14, 2003