Sunday, April 22, 2012

Previously in favourite quotations

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd - Voltaire

People in the past didn’t think that they were living in the past, they believed that they were living on the cutting edge of now - Michael Faber

A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular - Adlai Stevenson

Every physician should become knowledgeable in the art of cooking - Galen

There seems to be a tendency in England nowadays to consider that risk capital for new companies can be conjured up by civil servants & economists waving a sort of magic wand over the bankers - Nevil Shute, 1954

I sometimes confuse my thoughts about the world with the world itself - Paul Auster