Robertson Davies (1913–1995) Canadian journalist, playwright, professor, critic, and novelist
"College Master Looks at His World: Author Davies Finds Youth Little Changed".
Conversations with Robertson Davies (1989)
Si on veut faire quelque chose, il faut donc s'occuper d'éducation.
If there's one thing to do, it's to engage in education.
in an edition by [Michel Serres, Les Limites de L'humain, L'Age d'Homme, 2004, 2825118974, 81]
Robertson Davies (1913–1995) Canadian journalist, playwright, professor, critic, and novelist
"College Master Looks at His World: Author Davies Finds Youth Little Changed".
Conversations with Robertson Davies (1989)
“We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history.”
Timothy Leary (1920–1996) American psychologist
Interview by David Sheff in Rolling Stone Twentieth Anniversary Issue (1987)
Context: We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. They are a hundred times better educated than their grandparents, and ten times more sophisticated. There has never been such an open-minded group. The problem is that no one is giving them anything fresh. They've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.
Louis L'Amour (1908–1988) Novelist, short story writer
“If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”
Thomas Edison (1847–1931) American inventor and businessman
As quoted in Motivating Humans : Goals, Emotions, and Personal Agency Beliefs (1992) by Martin E. Ford, p. 17.
Date unknown
Variant: If we did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.
Rush Limbaugh (1951) U.S. radio talk show host, Commentator, author, and television personality
The Rush Limbaugh Show
2011-03-01
Radio, quoted in * Limbaugh's Misogynistic Attack On Georgetown Law Student Continues With Increased Vitriol
Media Matters for America
2009-03-09
http://mediamatters.org/blog/201203010012
“We [the United States] will coup whoever we want! Deal with it.”
Elon Musk (1971) South African-born American entrepreneur
Elon Musk's tweet (24 July 2020) https://web.archive.org/web/20200725105419/https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1286866843307737088 <br class="br"> Quotes https://www.wewishes.com/elon-musk-quotes/
“If we want a love which will protect the soul from wounds we must love something other than God.”
Simone Weil (1909–1943) French philosopher, Christian mystic, and social activist
Source: Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), Love (1947), p. 62
Alejandro Jodorowsky (1929) Filmmaker and comics writer
Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy (2010)
Paul Krugman (1953) American economist
When asked to define the economic policy of the Bush administration in a BuzzFlash interview http://www.buzzflash.com/interviews/03/09/11_krugman.html, 11 September 2003