John Gardner Quotes:
Ocupation: Novelist
Life: July 21, 1933 - September 14, 1982
Birthday: July 21
Death: September 14
An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher. The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity, and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity, will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
source: Dr. John W. Gardner (2015). “Excellence: Can We Be Equal And Excellent Too?”, p.97, Pickle Partners Publishing
topic: Philosophy, Humble, Water, Plumber, Exalted, Good Philosophy, Plumbing, Incompetent
