Stuart Bobb > Stuart's Quotes

“It was a good story, that of yours,” said Beorn, “but I like it still better now I am sure it is true." The Hobbit”
― JRR Tolkien

“Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.”
― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Autocrat of the Breakfast Table

“The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful.”
― Douglas W. Hubbard, How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business

“People don't believe what you tell them.
They rarely believe what you show them.
They often believe what their friends tell them.
They always believe what they tell themselves.”
― Seth Godin

“There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.”
― Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi

“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”
― Ernest Benn