Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Sleep Research Wisdom

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives. - William Dement

Saturday, September 26, 2009

Polymath Wisdom

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Thursday, September 24, 2009

Poetry Slam Wisdom

If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door. - Paul Beatty

Monday, September 21, 2009

Science Cartoonist Wisdom

Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own. - Sidney J. Harris

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Cartoonist Wisdom

It's a lot like nature. You only have as many animals as the ecosystem can support and you only have as many friends as you can tolerate the bitching of. - Randy K. Milholland

Wednesday, September 09, 2009

Dead President Wisdom

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

Tuesday, September 01, 2009

Author Wisdom

If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us? - Lois McMaster Bujold

Sunday, August 30, 2009

Children's Book Author Wisdom

I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant. - Robert McCloskey

Friday, August 28, 2009

Journalist Wisdom

If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. - Anatole France

Thursday, August 27, 2009

Social Writer Wisdom

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. - Eric Hoffer

Thursday, August 20, 2009

English Playwright Wisdom

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem. - W. Somerset Maugham

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Journalistic Wisdom

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous. - Shana Alexander

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Fabled Wisdom

The smaller the mind the greater the conceit. - Aesop

Sunday, August 16, 2009

Revolutionary Wisdom

A lie told often enough becomes the truth. - Lenin

Friday, August 14, 2009

Bullying Wisdom

A bully is not reasonable - he is persuaded only by threats. - Marie De France

Bullying in the Workplace in Canada

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

French Nobel and Writer Wisdom

To be deceived by our enemies or betrayed by our friends is insupportable; yet by ourselves we are often content to be so treated. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Counterculture Wisdom

If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees. - Kahlil Gibran

Thursday, August 06, 2009

Charolattes Web Wisdom

People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust. - E. B. White

Wednesday, August 05, 2009

Real Live Wisdom

Integrity combined with faithfulness is a powerful force and worthy of great respect. - Real Live Preacher

Tuesday, August 04, 2009

TV Maven Wisdom

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not. - Oprah Winfrey