Best 8 quotes of Gordon R. Dickson on MyQuotes

A camel is a horse designed by a committee and a committee's a sweet running piece of machinery compared to any government.

A faith-holder puts himself below his faith and lets it guide his actions. The fanatic puts himself above it and uses it as an excuse for his actions.

Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.

Facing facts is definitely preferable to facing defeat.

It was the centuries-old battle of man to keep his race alive and push forward into the future, the ceaseless, furious struggle of that beastlike, god-like—primitive, sophisticated—savage and civilized—composite organism that was the human race fighting to endure and push onward. Onward, and up, and up again, until the impossible was achieved, all barriers were broken, all pains conquered, all abilities possessed. Until all was lightning and no darkness left.

Onward, and up, and up again, until the impossible was achieved, all barriers were broken, all pains conquered, all abilities possessed. Until all was lightning and no darkness left.

There never was a throne yet built so high that it could not be rocked by laughter from below.

Why should there be some sort of virtue always attributed to a frank admission of vice?