William Thorsell Quotes

Canada, Journalist
July 6, 1945

William Thorsell, OOnt is a Canadian journalist, former editor-in-chief of The Globe and Mail, and past director and chief executive officer of the Royal Ontario Museum.

Also known as Editor

Museums should be places where you raise questions, not just show stuff.

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- Stuff
- Questions
- Museums
Memory is knowledge; character is the box of values and habits in which our knowledge knocks around. People with a lot of knowledge thrown together in a box that encourages social intercourse and experimentation tend to come up with good ideas, which are the engine of change. Think of Silicon Valley in California, or Oxbridge in the United Kingdom.

William Thorsell

You become visibly stressed because you are working hard to pay for a standard of living so robust that it overwhelms your capacity to consume it.

William Thorsell
- Stress
- Living
- Capacity