Rensis Likert (1903–1981) American statistician
Likert, Rensis, and Jane G. Likert. New ways of managing conflict. McGraw-Hill, 1976. p. 7.
Samuel Hartlib Legacy, (1650), p. 4. cited in: Walter Harte. Essays on Husbandry (1764), Essay II on lucerne. p. 10.
Rensis Likert (1903–1981) American statistician
Likert, Rensis, and Jane G. Likert. New ways of managing conflict. McGraw-Hill, 1976. p. 7.
Samuel R. Delany book Tales of Nevèrÿon
Source: Tales of Nevèrÿon (1979), Chapter 5, “The Tale of Dragons and Dreamers” Section 1 (p. 214; ellipsis in the original)
Clement Attlee (1883–1967) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Speech in Walthamstow (11 January 1949), quoted in The Times (12 January 1949), p. 4
Prime Minister
Charles Lindbergh (1902–1974) American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist
Aviation, Geography, and Race (1939)
Context: Air power is new to all our countries. It brings advantages to some and weakens others; it calls for readjustment everywhere.
If only there were some way to measure the changing character of men, some yardstick to reapportion influence among the nations, some way to demonstrate in peace the strength of arms in war. But with all of its dimensions, its clocks, and weights, and figures, science fails us when we ask a measure for the rights of men. They cannot be judged by numbers, by distance, weight, or time; or by counting heads without a thought of what may lie within. Those intangible qualities of character, such as courage, faith, and skill, evade all systems, slip through the bars of every cage. They can be recognized, but not measured.
Joseph Smith, Jr. book Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith
Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, 121 (8 May 1838)
1830s
Arthur Schopenhauer book Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life
Variant translation: Every nation criticizes every other one — and they are all correct.
As quoted by Wolfgang Pauli in a letter to Abraham Pais (17 August 1950) published in The Genius of Science (2000) by Abraham Pais, p. 242
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851), Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life
George Müller (1805–1898) German-English clergyman
A Narrative of Some of the Lord's Dealings with George Müller Written by Himself, Third Part.
Third Part of Narrative
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
"Of fire"
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XX Humorous Writings
Seneca the Younger book Epistulae morales ad Lucilium
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XXXIX: On Noble Aspirations