Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) American politician, 40th president of the United States (in office from 1981 to 1989)
Televised speech (27 October 1964), cited in Reagan's Reign of Error (1983) by Mark Green
1960s
“Seven years ago we all went through the flames. And the happiness of some of us since then is, we think, well worth the pain we endured.”
— Bram Stoker, book Dracula
Jonathan Harker
Dracula (1897)
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“I dont think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it.”
Arthur Golden book Memoirs of a Geisha
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Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood (1864–1958) lawyer, politician and diplomat in the United Kingdom
The Future of Civilization (1938)
Context: We see the world as it is now, after these defeats of the League, and we can compare it with what it was six or seven years ago. The comparison is certainly depressing; the contrast is terrible. And we have not yet reached a time when we can estimate the full material losses and human suffering which have been the direct result of the ambitions of one set of powers and the weakness of the others. Nor is there any purpose in attempting to do so. Let us, rather, examine where we now stand and what steps we ought to take in order to strengthen the international system and thrust back again the forces of reaction.
In the first place, let us admit that the first ten years of the League were in a sense unnatural. The horror of war to which I have already alluded was necessarily far more vivid than it can be expected long to remain. That tremendous argument for peace, the horror of war, was a diminishing asset. Most of us, at that time, were, I think, quite well aware that unless we could get the international system into solidly effective working order in the first ten years, we were likely to have great difficulties in the succeeding period, and so it has proved.
Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) Führer and Reich Chancellor of Germany, Leader of the Nazi Party
1930s, From the film Triumph of the Will (1935)
Steve Jobs (1955–2011) American entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple Inc.
On Toy Story as quoted in Fortune (18 September 1995)
1990s
Sydney Smith (1771–1845) English writer and clergyman
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 6
Karl Popper (1902–1994) Austrian-British philosopher of science
In Search of a Better World (1984)
Context: There are uncertain truths — even true statements that we may take to be false — but there are no uncertain certainties.
Since we can never know anything for sure, it is simply not worth searching for certainty; but it is well worth searching for truth; and we do this chiefly by searching for mistakes, so that we have to correct them.
