“A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.” Continue reading
Author Archives: Paul Tomaszewski
Robertson Davies on Children
Philip G. Hamerton on Quotations
“Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?” Continue reading
Francis Bacon on Change
“Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.” Continue reading
P. B. Medawar on Ideas
“The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.” Continue reading
Alfred North Whitehead’s Cynical Quote
“Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.” Continue reading
Oscar Wilde on Business
“My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people’s.” Continue reading
Isaac Asimov on Knowledge
“If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.” Continue reading
Edsger Dijkstra on Computers
“Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.” Continue reading
Chinese Proverb on Wisdom
“He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.” Continue reading
Oscar Wilde on Truth
“If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.” Continue reading
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