Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2001-06-25 Jun 25, 2001Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.~ Sydney J. HarrisGive a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.~ Abraham KaplanIf you see a man approaching you with the obvious intent of doing you good, you should run for your life.~ Henry David Thoreau Jun 22, 2001That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended -- civilizations are built up -- excellent institutions devised; but each time something goes wrong. Some fatal flaw always brings the selfish and cruel people to the top, and then it all slides back into misery and ruin. In fact, the machine conks. It seems to start up all right and runs a few yards, and then it breaks down.~ C. S. Lewis Jun 21, 2001We are so concerned to flatter the majority that we lose sight of how very often it is necessary, in order to preserve freedom for the minority, let alone for the individual, to face that majority down.~ William F. Buckley, Jr. Jun 20, 2001Among the innumerable mortifications which waylay human arrogance on every side may well be reckoned our ignorance of the most common objects and effects, a defect of which we become more sensible by every attempt to supply it. Vulgar and inactive minds confound familiarity with knowledge and conceive themselves informed of the whole nature of things when they are shown their form or told their use; but the speculatist, who is not content with superficial views, harasses himself with fruitless curiosity, and still, as he inquires more, perceives only that he knows less.~ Dr. Samuel Johnson Jun 19, 2001If you want a Big Brother, you get all that comes with it.~ Erich FrommThe meek shall inherit the earth, but not its mineral rights.~ J. Paul Getty Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print