I’ve made a habit of publishing pages of quotes every few months at DI. As one of my many sources, I sometimes visit The Quotations Page. Here are some of my favorites from from QP over the past few weeks:

“Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.”
William James (1842 – 1910)

“Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.”
Sir Ralph Richardson (1902 – 1983), quoted in New York Herald Tribune, May 19, 1946

“If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.”
Donald H. Rumsfeld (1932 – ), US Secretary of Defense

“You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.”
John J. Plomp

“Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.”
George Santayana (1863 – 1952), Life of Reason (1905) vol. 1, Introduction

“Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.”
Mark Twain (1835 – 1910), Pudd’nhead Wilson (1894)

“Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.”
Lee Simonson

“The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.”
Alfred North Whitehead (1861 – 1947)

“It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.”
William G. McAdoo (1863 – 1941)

“Great men’s errors are to be venerated as more fruitful than little men’s truths.”
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 – 1900)

“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.”
Peter Drucker (1909 – 2005)

“A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.”
Herman Melville (1819 – 1891)

“Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.”
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784)