Ferdinand Foch (1851–1929) French soldier and military theorist
Therefore, in order to do even a little, one has already to know a great deal and to know it well.
Source: Precepts and Judgments (1919), p. 175
“One does simply what one can in order to apply what one knows.”
The Principles of War (1913)
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Ferdinand Foch (1851–1929) French soldier and military theorist
Source: Precepts and Judgments (1919), p. 175
François de La Rochefoucauld book Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
Dans l'amitié comme dans l'amour on est souvent plus heureux par les choses qu'on ignore que par celles que l'on sait.
Variant translation: In friendship as in love, we are often happier due to the things we are unaware of than the things we know.
Maxim 441.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
“One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.”
Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) French writer (1821–1880)
“You see? In the fairy tales one does as one wants, and in reality one does what one can.”
Elena Ferrante (1943) Italian writer
Source: Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
“It is futile to fight against, if one does not know what one is fighting for.”
Ayn Rand book Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal (1966)
“So far as consciousness goes, one does one's thinking before one knows what he is to think about.”
Edwin Boring (1886–1968) American psychologist
Source: A History of Experimental Psychology, 1929, p. 397: Cited in: Jay M. Jackson (2013) Social Psychology, Past and Present: An Integrative Orientation, p. 28