Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.
Jack Welch
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Bad news isn’t wine. It doesn’t improve with age.
Colin Powell
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Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person’s mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The wheel is come full circle.
William Shakespeare
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The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state.
Thomas Sowell
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I called the book ‘The Senator Next Door,’ not ‘The President Next Door.’
Amy Klobuchar
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I have told friends and supporters who are urging me to run that I would not oppose President Johnson under any foreseeable circumstances.
Robert Kennedy
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Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
Booker T. Washington
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Can advertising foist an inferior product on the consumer? Bitter experience has taught me that it cannot. On those rare occasions when I have advertised products which consumer tests have found inferior to other products in the same field, the results have been disastrous.
David Ogilvy
Got any book recommendations?