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Sunday, 11 January
Two thoughts from Julian Simon
“Discoveries, like resources, may well be infinite: the more we discover, the more we are able to discover.”
“The main fuel to speed the world’s progress is our stock of knowledge, and the brake is our lack of imagination.”
Monday, 12 January
Two thoughts from Alain de Botton
“The fear of saying something stupid (which stupid people never have) has censored far more good ideas than bad ones.”
“The news promotes a toxic society of envy.”
Tuesday, 13 January
Two thoughts from Eric Hoffer
“In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.”
“Rudeness is the weak man’s imitation of strength.”
Wednesday, 14 January
Two thoughts from H. L. Mencken
“The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.”
“The kind of man who demands that government enforce his ideas is always the kind whose ideas are idiotic.”
Thursday, 15 January
Two thoughts from Lytton Strachey
“Perhaps of all the creations of man language is the most astonishing.”
“It is perhaps as difficult to write a good life as to live one.”
Friday, 16 January
Two thoughts from José Ortega y Gasset
“Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are.”
“All we are given are possibilities to make ourselves one thing or another.”
Saturday, 17 January
Two thoughts from Jonathan Swift
“When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.”
“It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.”
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Here's my number one favorite quote, and it's from Thich Nhat Hanh, the Vietnamese Buddhist monk: "We are here to awaken from the illusion of our separateness."
Dear Jim,
Great quotes this week! Some of my faves:
Julian Simon:
“Discoveries, like resources, may well be infinite: the more we discover, the more we are able to discover.”
Eric Hoffer:
“In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.”
“Rudeness is the weak man’s imitation of strength.”
Lytton Strachey:
“Perhaps of all the creations of man language is the most astonishing.”
José Ortega y Gasset:
“Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are.”
Jonathan Swift:
“It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.”
Thank you for sharing as always!
Love
Myq