Adam Smith (1723–1790) Scottish moral philosopher and political economist
Source: (1776), Book I, Chapter I, p. 7
“… for my greatest skill has been to want but little.”
Source: Walden
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Thomas Hodgskin (1787–1869) British writer
Source: Labour Defended against the Claims of Capital (1825), p. 66
Sukarno (1901–1970) first President of the Republic of Indonesia
Speech at the Opening of the Bandung Conference
Paddy Ashdown (1941–2018) British politician and diplomat
As quoted in "Farewell, Sarajevo" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/nov/02/warcrimes.politics (1 November 2005), The Guardian
“Let each man pass his days in that wherein his skill is greatest.”
Qua pote quisque, in ea conterat arte diem.
Propertius (-47–-16 BC) Latin elegiac poet
II, i, 46.
Elegies
Mark Batterson (1969) American pastor and writer
Source: In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day: How to Survive and Thrive When Opportunity Roars
Otis Redding (1941–1967) American singer, songwriter and record producer
I've Been Loving You Too Long, co-written with Jerry Butler.
Song lyrics, Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul (1965)
“Timidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill.”
Hippocrates (-460–-370 BC) ancient Greek physician
4.
The Law
Context: Timidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill. There are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant.
