Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright
Y así, del poco dormir y del mucho leer, se le secó el cerebro, de manera que vino a perder el juicio.
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book I, Ch. 1 (tr. Samuel Putnam).
“Reader, look,
Not at his picture, but his book.”
Ben Jonson (1572–1637) English writer
To the Reader [On the portrait of Shakespeare prefixed to the First Folio] (1618), lines 9-10
Gerald M. Weinberg (1933–2018) American computer scientist
Source: Introduction to General Systems Thinking, 1975, p. 12; Cited in: Nawaz Sharif, Pakorn Adulbhan (1978) Systems models for decision making. p. 38
“The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.”
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …
“He understands not only with his brain but with his heart.”
Anne Bancroft (1931–2005) American actress
On her husband Mel Brooks Associated Press interview (1997).
Context: He understands not only with his brain but with his heart. And that might be called love. Not quite sure, but maybe that's the key.
Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) Spanish artist
Source: Quotes of Salvador Dali, 1961 - 1970, Diary of a Genius (1964), p. 11 - in: the 'Prologue' of The Diary of a Genius
E.M. Forster book Aspects of the Novel
Source: Commonplace Book (1985), p. 11
Source: Aspects of the Novel
Louis Nizer (1902–1994) American lawyer
Between You and Me, Beechurst Press, 1948.
Jean-Étienne Montucla (1725–1799) French mathematician
Attributed to Montucla in Augustus De Morgan, A Budget of Paradoxes, (London, 1872), p. 96; Cited in: Robert Edouard Moritz. Memorabilia mathematica; or, The philomath's quotation-book, (1914) p. 366
About Gregory St. Vincent, described by De Morgan as "the greatest of circle-squarers, and his investigations led him into many truths: he found the property of the arc of the hyperbola which led to Napier's logarithms being called hyperbolic."
