Admirable Quote by John W. Gardner Download Open image “An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher.” — John W. Gardner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Admirable Computer language Computer programming Education Excellent Incompetent Philosopher Philosophy Plumber Programming languages Teacher
An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher. The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've always argued that it is just as desirable, just as possible, to have philosopher plumbers as philosopher kings. — Edith Green Copy Share Image
The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
A nation that values bad philosophy above good plumbing will have neither good philosophy nor good plumbing — John Gardner Copy Share Image
“Certain people make a living from their abilities, such as pilots, plumbers, and lawyers. In other areas, skill is necessary but not critical, as… — Rolf Dobelli Copy Share Image
A philosopher ... is not fairly judged by his eccentricities, nor by the frailties to which he is liable; still less should his philosophy… — John Grier Hibben Copy Share Image
“A real man doesn’t call the plumbers. If he gonna call himself a man, he needs to know how to fix it, on the… — Timothy Bauer Copy Share Image
A pipe is a pocket philosopher,--a truer one than Socrates, for it never asks questions. Socrates must have been very tiresome, when one thinks… — Ouida Copy Share Image
I maintain that many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practice the dull craft… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
I maintain that to-day many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practise the dull… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
'But the man who is ready to taste every form of knowledge, is glad to learn and never satisfied - he's the man who… — Plato Copy Share Image
“We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.” — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
Tax reduction has an almost irresistible appeal to the politician, and it is no doubt also gratifying to the citizen. It means more dollars… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
We get richer and richer in filthier and filthier communities until we reach a final state of affluent misery - crocus on a garbage… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
At home we have lost the capacity to see what is before us. Travel shakes us out of our apathy, and we regain an… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Few have excellence thrust upon them ... They achieve it. They do not achieve it unwittingly by… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county.… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his education. — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure-all your life. — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
Consumer wants can have bizarre, frivolous, or even immoral origins, and an admirable case can still be made for a society that seeks to… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Education is very admirable but let us not forget that anything worth knowing cannot be taught. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Happiness is a rare plant that seldom takes root on earth-few ever enjoyed it, except for a brief period; the search after it is… — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
It is admirable to consider how many millions of people come into, and go out of the world, ignorant of themselves and of the… — William Penn Copy Share Image
What is pure Bill? Or excellent or admirable? The death of a million people in a flood? God evidently through so. He is incapable… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
Mexico is sex and Canada is mind. There is much about Canada that I find admirable - the treatment of immigrants, for example, particularly… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Of what use is it to please the herd? They are simply coarse animals - for all that is admirable in man is the… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
I didn't get a chance to meet Glen [Beck] for this movie. I did meet him a few years ago, coincidentally, before any of… — Zachary Quinto Copy Share Image
No method nor discipline can supersede the necessity of being forever on the alert. What is a course of history, or philosophy, or poetry,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I think it's perfectly acceptable and rather admirable to be moderately delusional — Matthew Gray Gubler Copy Share Image
Charles Darwin made arguably the greatest discovery any human has ever made. He was a man of great persistence. He wasn't probably a natural… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
N. S. Khrushchev established his supremacy in the U.S.S.R. after post-Stalinist alarums and excursions (1958-64). This admirable rough diamond, a believer in reform and… — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
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