January 17, 2021January 17, 2021 Allan ShowalterQuotations “Make it a rule never to withhold or conceal from yourself anything that may be thought against your own thoughts. Vow it! This is the essential requirement of honest thinking. You must undertake such a campaign against yourself every day.” Friedrich Nietzsche
January 15, 2021 Allan ShowalterQuotations “Music makes people happier, and it doesn’t harm them. Most things that make you feel better are harmful. It’s very unusual. It’s like a drug, that doesn’t kill you.” Fran Lebowitz
January 14, 2021 Allan ShowalterQuotations “Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.” Fran Lebowitz
January 13, 2021 Allan ShowalterQuotations “Think before you speak. Read before you think. This will give you something to think about that you didn’t make up yourself – a wise move at any age, but most especially at seventeen, when you are in the greatest danger of coming to annoying conclusions.” Fran Lebowitz
January 6, 2021January 6, 2021 Allan ShowalterQuotations “Acquire the art of detachment, the virtue of method, and the quality of thoroughness, but above all the grace of humility.” William Osler
December 29, 2020 Allan ShowalterQuotations “Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.” William Osler
December 23, 2020 Allan ShowalterQuotations “One special advantage of the skeptical attitude of mind is that a man is never vexed to find that after all he has been in the wrong.” William Osler
December 22, 2020 Allan ShowalterQuotations “The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.” William Osler
December 17, 2020 Allan ShowalterQuotations “False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.” Joseph de Maistre