A Quote by Ric Keller

You can lead a bureaucrat to water, but you can't make him think. — © Ric Keller
You can lead a bureaucrat to water, but you can't make him think.
They say "you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink." In the Marine Corps, you can make that horse wish to hell he had.
You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him enter regional distribution codes in data field 97 to facilitate regression analysis on the back end.
I don't want anybody between a doctor and a patient - not an insurance company bureaucrat or a Washington bureaucrat.
If you've never met a student from the University of Chicago, I'll describe him to you. If you give him a glass of water, he says, 'This is a glass of water. But is it a glass of water? And if it is a glass of water, why is it a glass of water?' And eventually he dies of thirst.
You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think.
You Can Lead an Atheist to Evidence, but You Can't Make Him Think.
You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.
You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.
For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.
You can lead a horse to water, but if you can get him to roll over and float on his back, then you got something!
Water from clay pipes is much more wholesome than that which is conducted through lead pipes, because lead is found to be harmful for the reason that white lead is derived from it, and this is said to be hurtful to the human system.
You can lead a horse to water and you can even make it drink, but you can't make actresses wear what they don't want to wear.
We're all interconnected. For example, a simple lack of fresh water can lead to population dislocation, which can lead to political radicalization, which can lead to great pressure on the states that receive refugees because of a migrating population.
You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be lead.
As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.
Another merit of home is that it preserves the diversity between individuals. If we were all alike, it might be convenient for the bureaucrat and the statistician, but it would be very dull, and would lead to a very unprogressive society.
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