Gray Watson's Quote List

Philosophy

• We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is not an act, but a habit. -- Will Durant writing about Aristotle's work.
• You will never find the best [person]. You will only find one that is good enough. And, if you do well, you will not think much about The Perfect [Person], less and less as time goes by. -- Jim Daily (1994)
• We are great mysteries. No matter what we imagine we may know, even for all the facts we might gather, we don't know each other. Never do, probably never will. Our reputations depend on the opinions of the ill informed. We all have better moments than anybody ever knows, and so do all the others. We are, each one of us, books that are read by critics who only glanced at the chapter headings and the jacket flap. Each one of us is a secret, and on that basis we ought to treat each other with the deepest respect. -- Garrison Keillor, Prairie Home Companion (March 19, 1994)
• Middle class people are fearful of losing. So everything is about fear of loss. When's everything is based on money, everything's for sale, including their integrity and their morals. -- Roseanne
• You only have one life to live. You can either make it chicken shit, or chicken salad. -- Vince Kozonski: the movie Cousins
• Imagination is more important than knowledge. -- Albert Einstein
• The most important human endeavor is striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life. -- Albert Einstein
• Never doubt that a small group of concerned citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. -- Margret Mead
• Truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it; ignorance may deride it; malice may distort it; but there it is. -- Sir Winston Churchill
• Liberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious. -- John Stuart Mill
• The only thing in the world worth a damn is the strange, touching, pathetic, awesome nobility of the individual human spirit. -- John D. MacDonald, A Deadly Shade of Gold
• ... "politics without principle, wealth without work, commerce without morality, pleasure without conscience, education without character, science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice." -- what Mahatma Gandhi called the Seven Social Sins

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