“Democracy is a process by which people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.” Continue reading
Laurence J. Peter on Politics
Robert Frost on Poetry
“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.” Continue reading
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Friendship
“The only way to have a friend is to be one.” 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
Abraham Maslow on Problems
“If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.” Continue reading
Carl Sagan on Intelligence
“The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.” Continue reading
Benjamin Franklin on Politics
“All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.” Continue reading
Euripides on Foolishness
“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.” Continue reading
William James on Society
“A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.” Continue reading
Mohandas Gandhi on Forgiveness
“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” Continue reading
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