old quotes
2025
july
“Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.”
Shaw
august
“Good morning, and in case I don’t see ya, good afternoon, good evening, and good night.”
The Truman Show
september
“Learning is intrinsically difficult because the reexamination of basic assumptions temporarily destabilizes our cognitive and interpersonal world, releasing large quantities of basic anxiety.”
Schein, Organizational Culture
october
“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
Hubbard
november
“Do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing, and you’ll never be criticized.”
Elbert Hubbard
december
“The Dao that can be spoken is not the Eternal Dao”
Tao te Ching
2026
january
“The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the coming of the dusk.”
Hegel
february
“Moreover, there is nothing in theory, and certainly nothing in experience, to support the extraordinary judgment that it is the truth about himself that is the easiest for a person to know.”
Frankfurt, On Bullshit
march
“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.”
Orwell