Quotes · Skopia

34 quotes

Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature-subtract the work of the men above forty, and while we should miss great treasures, even priceless treasures, we would practically be where we are today... The effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of twenty-five and forty.

William Osler

1925

★ 0.8

The young physician starts life with twenty drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for twenty diseases.

William Osler

1950

★ 0.9

We need spring. We need it desperately and, usually, we need it before God is willing to give it to us.

Peter John Gzowski

1979

★ 0.9

Poem

To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields.

John McCrae

In Flanders Fields · 1915

★ 1.8

Economic literature

One can relish the varied idiocy of human action during a panic to the full, for, while it is a time of great tragedy, nothing is being lost but money.

John Kenneth Galbraith

1955

★ 1.8

Sociology · Economic literature

These are the days when men of all social disciplines and all political faiths seek the comfortable and the accepted; when the man of controversy is looked upon as a disturbing influence; when originality is taken to be a mark of instability; and when, in minor modification of the scriptural parable, the bland lead the bland.

John Kenneth Galbraith

The Affluent Society · 1958

★ 1.9

Magazine

Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good.

Charlotte Whitton

1963

★ 1.9

Song · Rock music

It's better to burn out Than to fade away.

Neil Young

My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue) · 1978

★ 1.9

Autobiography and memoir

My life has been a quest for knowledge and understanding, and I am nowhere near having achieved that. And it doesn’t bother me in the least.

Alex Trebek

2020

★ 1.9

Poem

I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed & that necessary.

Margaret Atwood

Variation on the Word Sleep · 1980

★ 2.0

Novel

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive but there's less of you.

Margaret Atwood

Surfacing · 1972

★ 2.1

Novel · Dystopian fiction

What I need is perspective. The illusion of depth, created by a frame, the arrangement of shapes on a flat surface. Perspective is necessary. Otherwise there are only two dimensions. Otherwise you live with your face squashed against a wall, everything a huge foreground, of details, close-ups, hairs, the weave of the bedsheet, the molecules of the face.

Margaret Atwood

The Handmaid's Tale · 1985

★ 2.1

Novel · Dystopian fiction

But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. No use, that is. No plot.

Margaret Atwood

The Handmaid's Tale · 1985

★ 2.2

Novel · Dystopian fiction

Don't let the bastards grind you down.

Margaret Atwood

The Handmaid's Tale · 1985

★ 2.3

Song · Folk rock · Folk music

Does any one know where the love of God goes When the waves turn the minutes to hours?

Gordon Lightfoot

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald · 1976

★ 2.8

Poem

In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below.

John McCrae

In Flanders Fields · 1915

★ 3.5

Essay · Satire

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

Stephen Leacock

1924

★ 3.5

Speech

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

William Osler

1902

★ 3.5

Scientific literature

The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and beget.

William Osler

1904

★ 3.5

Speech · Commencement address

The purpose of art is the lifelong construction of a state of wonder.

Glenn Gould

1982

★ 3.5

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