“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)
In my latest Loonie Politics column I say there’s a stark divide in Canada and throughout the West, vividly on display over the truckers’ convoy, between those who favour plain reasoning and those who like their logic ornate, dazzling and convoluted.
“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 decades ahead will almost certainly be unstable and unpredictable ones…”
The Editors teasing to “findings… from a diverse group of analysts at the RAND Corporation” that take up much of The Atlantic Monthly July-August 2003 issue
In my latest National Post column I say that given how horrified we are at the foolish things politicians do, including on defence procurement, we should pay more attention to the foolish way they think.