“My physics teacher used to say Diogenes shouldn’t have wasted his time looking for an honest man,” Shirl said, “he should have been looking for somebody who thought for himself.”
Source: Bellwether (1996), Chapter 3 “Tributaries”, Section 4 (p. 127)
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Connie Willis 39
American science fiction writer 1945Related quotes

“Diogenes lighted a candle in the daytime, and went round saying, "I am looking for a man."”
Diogenes, 6.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 6: The Cynics

"Honest People Have Rights, Too" (8 February 1960).
Scientology Bulletins

At that moment . . . Jackson Pollock was crossing the street.
Quoted in in "AMERICAN SUBLIME : Morton Feldman's mysterious musical landscapes", by Alex Ross. in The New Yorker (19 June 2006)

"A School Story", from More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1911); The Collected Ghost Stories of M. R. James (London: Edward Arnold, 1947) p. 188.

By Syed Kirmani.
Kumble Calls it a Day: Quotes... For and By Kumble...

Source: Attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 72.