Shave a gorilla and it would be almost impossible, at twenty paces, to distinguish him from a heavyweight champion of the world. Skin a chimpanzee, and it would take an autopsy to prove he was not a theologian.
~ H. L. Mencken
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Our culture, obsessed with numbers, has given us the idea that what we can measure is more important than what we can’t measure.
~ Donella Meadows
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Make definite assertions. Avoid tame, colorless, hesitating, non-committal language. Use the word not as a means of denial or in antithesis, never as a means of evasion.
~ William Strunk, Jr.
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Indifference to the fine arts comes close to barbarism.
~ Karl Friedrich Schinkel
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Myths are made for the imagination to breathe life into them.
~ Albert Camus
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One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
~ Man Ray
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Conservatism is itself a modernism, and in this lies the secret of its success.
~ Roger Scruton
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Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world — and never will.
~ Mark Twain
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We do not belong to this material world that science constructs for us. We are not in it; we are outside. We are only spectators.
~ Erwin Schrödinger
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Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
~ Peter Drucker