I enjoy waking up and not having to go to work. So I do it three or four times a day. – Gene Perret
Two things I dislike about my granddaughter — when she won’t take her afternoon nap, and when she won’t let me take mine. – Gene Perret
What a bargain grandchildren are! I give them my loose change, and they give me a million dollars’ worth of pleasure. – Gene Perret
Grandchildren: the only people who can get more out of you than the IRS. – Gene Perret
It is well to know something of the manners of various peoples, in order more sanely to judge our own, and that we do not think that everything against our modes is ridiculous, and against reason, as those who have seen nothing are accustomed to think. РRen̩ Descartes, Discourse on the Method, 1637 (translated)
Genuine ignorance is… profitable because it is likely to be accompanied by humility, curiosity, and open mindedness; whereas ability to repeat catch-phrases, cant terms, familiar propositions, gives the conceit of learning and coats the mind with varnish waterproof to new ideas. – John Dewey