Thread: Quip Of The Day

"Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority."
--Sir Francis Bacon

"You raise your voice when you should reinforce your argument"
Anon

"The value of truth is not elevated with a raised voice."
-I'm sure someone said it

There’s a difference between doing things right and doing the right thing.’ Doing the right thing is wisdom, and effectiveness. Doing things right is efficiency. The curious thing is the righter you do the wrong thing the wronger you become. If you’re doing the wrong thing and you make a mistake and correct it you become wronger. So it’s better to do the right thing wrong than the wrong thing right. Almost every major social problem that confronts us today is a consequence of trying to do the wrong things righter.

- Peter Drucker

Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don't know we don't know. And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free countries, it is the latter category that tend to be the difficult ones.

- Donald Rumsfeld

A clear conscience is usually a sign of a bad memory.

He occasionally stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened.

- Winston Churchill.

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

" All expectation hath something of a torment."
Benjamin Wincome...1753

Finding common ground is far easier, and more common-place, than sharing the location that you find.
--observation made after smooshing a fly that was buzzing around my breakfast.