Quotes by James Robinson

• Our goal, simply stated, is to be the best.
• We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are.
• Partisanship is our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is our duty to be on one or the other.
• Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing.
• We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but find ourselves filled with an illicit passion for them when anyone proposed to rob us of their companionship.
• There are pastors who won't go to people's sick beds. How can people of God turn their back on the sick, poor and hungry?
• Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.
• Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.
• Success is not just about the destination, it's an everlasting vacation of learning from every misstep along the way.