Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
As quoted in Walden (1854) by Henry David Thoreau, Ch. 1
Attributed
Source: Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
As quoted in Walden (1854) by Henry David Thoreau, Ch. 1
Attributed
Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543) Renaissance mathematician, Polish astronomer, physician
Confucius, as quoted in Walden (1854) by Henry David Thoreau, Ch. 1
Misattributed
John Ruskin (1819–1900) English writer and art critic
The Crown of Wild Olive, lecture IV: The Future of England, section 151 (1866).
“Till we know that, what is all our knowledge; how shall we even so much as "detect?”
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher
For the vulpine sharpness, which considers itself to be knowledge, and "detects" in that fashion, is far mistaken. Dupes indeed are many: but, of all dupes, there is none so fatally situated as he who lives in undue terror of being duped.
1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero As King
Daniel Defoe La vie et les aventures de Robinson Crusoe
Source: Robinson Crusoe (1719), Ch. 10, Tames Goats.
Allan Bloom (1930–1992) American philosopher, classicist, and academician
“Western Civ,” p. 18.
Giants and Dwarfs (1990)
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945) German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi
Letters and papers from Prison (1997), p. 311. May 25, 1944 letter to Eberhard Bethge,