Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Broadcast from 10 Downing Street, London (24 May 1927), quoted in Our Inheritance (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1938), p. 63.
1927
“We will our Rights in Learning's World maintain,
Wit's Empire, now, shall know a Female Reign.”
Source: The Emulation http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poems/emulation (1703), Lines 32–33
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Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …
Written by Henry Stuber as part of a biographical sketch of Franklin appended to a 1793 edition of Franklin's autobiography and sometimes reprinted with it in the 19th century. It is frequently misattributed to Franklin himself.
Misattributed
Teresa of Ávila (1515–1582) Roman Catholic saint
First Mansions, Ch. 2 : The Human Soul, as translated by the Benedictines of Stanbrook (1911), revised and edited by Fr. Benedict Zimmerman
Interior Castle (1577)
Context: We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring to know God; for, beholding His greatness we realize our own littleness; His purity shows us our foulness; and by meditating upon His humility we find how very far we are from being humble.
Winston S. Churchill book The Second World War
Broadcast (17 June 1940), quoted in Martin Gilbert, Finest Hour: Winston S. Churchill, 1939–1941 (London: Heinemann, 1983), p. 566
The Second World War (1939–1945)
Vitali Klitschko (1971) Ukrainian boxer and politician
"Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko says he’s ready to give his life for Ukraine" https://nypost.com/2022/03/18/vitali-klitschko-says-hes-ready-to-give-his-life-for-ukraine/, New York Post, 18 March 2022
“We must learn to exist in a consumer empire but not forfeit our souls at its altar.”
The Divine Commodity: Discovering A Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity (2009, Zondervan)
Karl Popper (1902–1994) Austrian-British philosopher of science
Variant translation: The more we learn about the world, and the deeper our learning, the more conscious, clear, and well-defined will be our knowledge of what we do not know, our knowledge of our ignorance. The main source of our ignorance lies in the fact that our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge (1963)
Context: The more we learn about the world, and the deeper our learning, the more conscious, specific, and articulate will be our knowledge of what we do not know, our knowledge of our ignorance. For this, indeed, is the main source of our ignorance — the fact that our knowledge can be only finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
Lyndon B. Johnson (1908–1973) American politician, 36th president of the United States (in office from 1963 to 1969)
1960s, Memorial Day speech (1963)
Hermann Rauschning (1887–1982) German politician
Source: The Voice of Destruction (1940), pp. 192-193
Alfred Binet (1857–1911) French psychologist and inventor of the first usable intelligence test
Source: The Mind and the Brain, 1907, p. 12