Gordon Wright quotes

Gordon Wright quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Every time you ride, your either teaching or un-teaching your horse.”
-- Gordon Wright

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“The past is never completely lost, however extensive the devastation. Your sorrows are the bricks and mortar of a magnificent temple. What you are today and what you will be tomorrow are because of what you have been.”
-- Gordon Wright

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“[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth. The sober facts of geology shuffled, so as to play a rogue's game; phrenology (that sinkhole of human folly and prating coxcombry); spontaneous generation; transmutation of species; and I know not what; all to be swallowed, without tasting and trying, like so much horse-physic!! Gross credulity and rank infidelity joined in unlawful marriage, and breeding a deformed progeny of unnatural conclusions!”
“The men are much alarmed by certain speculations about women; and well they may be, for when the horse and ***** begin to think and argue, adieu to riding and driving.”
“The wedding vows are a license to be a complete jerk, with full knowledge that the person you married has agreed, no matter how large a horse's ***** you are, to stay by your side until death. A fool could tell you this is a bad deal.”
“Smoke like a chimney, work like a horse, eat without thinking, go for a walk only in really pleasant company.”
“If Americans want to see results instead of rhetoric, if taxpayers would like solutions instead of sound bites, and hard work instead of horse trading, I suggest you take a short look, and it won't take much longer, at the accomplishments of this Congress.”
“A camel is a horse designed by committee.”

Source : Gordon R. Dickson (1978). “The Far Call”
“An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.”
“A spiritual teaching is a finger pointing toward Reality; it is not Reality itself. To be in a true and mature relationship with a spiritual teaching requires you to apply it, not simply believe in it.”
“Silence is the only teaching and the only teacher that is there all the time.”
“Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.”

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