Sign in with Facebook
“great principles, great ideals know no nationality.”
― Selected Writings and Speeches of Marcus Garvey
― Selected Writings and Speeches of Marcus Garvey
“Retrophrenology:
It works like this. Phrenology, as everyone knows, is a way of reading someone's character, aptitude and abilities by examining the bumps and hollows on their head. Therefore - according to the kind of logical thinking that characterizes the Ankh-Morpork mind - it should be possible to mould someone's character by giving them carefully graded bumps in all the right places. You can go into a shop and order an artistic temperament with a tendency to introspection and a side order of hysteria. What you actually get is hit on the head with a selection of different size mallets, but it creates employment and keeps the money in circulation, and that's the main thing.”
― Men at Arms
It works like this. Phrenology, as everyone knows, is a way of reading someone's character, aptitude and abilities by examining the bumps and hollows on their head. Therefore - according to the kind of logical thinking that characterizes the Ankh-Morpork mind - it should be possible to mould someone's character by giving them carefully graded bumps in all the right places. You can go into a shop and order an artistic temperament with a tendency to introspection and a side order of hysteria. What you actually get is hit on the head with a selection of different size mallets, but it creates employment and keeps the money in circulation, and that's the main thing.”
― Men at Arms
“Liberate the minds of men and ultimately you will liberate the bodies of men.”
―
―
“A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin, and culture is like a tree without roots.”
―
―
“Scepticism is as much the result of knowledge, as knowledge is of scepticism. To be content with what we at present know, is, for the most part, to shut our ears against conviction; since, from the very gradual character of our education, we must continually forget, and emancipate ourselves from, knowledge previously acquired; we must set aside old notions and embrace fresh ones; and, as we learn, we must be daily unlearning something which it has cost us no small labour and anxiety to acquire.”
― The Iliad
― The Iliad
Goodreads Librarians Group
— 332792 members
— last activity 2 minutes ago
Goodreads Librarians are volunteers who help ensure the accuracy of information about books and authors in the Goodreads' catalog. The Goodreads Libra ...more
George’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at George’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
314 books
|
5 friends
1,393 books
|
71 friends
1,445 books
|
40 friends
883 books
|
32 friends
0 books
|
2,181 friends
1,390 books
|
301 friends
3,420 books
|
89 friends
1,888 books
|
96 friends
More friends…
Polls voted on by George
Lists liked by George