Source: 1960s, Counterblast (1969), p. 55
Source: The Future As History (1960), Chapter III, part 10, The Mastery of Technology, p. 161
explaining why the engineer should not be viewed as a "mere tender of machines", as quoted by [Hugh Richard Slotten, Radio and television regulation, JHU Press, 2000, 080186450X, 62]
Variant translation by Lin Yutang: "He who knows others is learned; he who knows himself is wise".
Source: Tao Te Ching, Ch. 33, as interpreted by Stephen Mitchell (1992)
Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money-That the Poor and the Middle Class Do Not!
Section 32 (p. 189)
When HARLIE Was One (1972)
“Only by not forgetting the past can we be the master of the future.”
As quoted "Literary witness to century of turmoil" in China Daily (24 November 2003)
Quote about the future challenges that industrial society faced due to the societal catastrophe, which was considered to be 20 to 50 years away. Cited in: Ian Murray (1972) " Workers told of peril of technology http://www.kwilliam-kapp.de/pdf/Kapp%20in%20NYT%2072.pdf". In: The Times, April 16, 1972
“A reading-machine, always wound up and going,
He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.”
Prologue, st. 7
A Fable for Critics (1848)
“A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.”
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
