“He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.”
Jim Elliot (1927–1956) Martyred Christian missionary to Ecuador
Journal excerpt from Shadow of the Almighty (1989) by Elisabeth Elliot, Jim Elliot, 1949
This quote is a paraphrase of Elliot's from the original quote (below) by English nonconformist clergyman Philip Henry (1631-1696)
Misattributed
Elisabeth Elliot (1926–2015) American missionary
Source: The Journals of Jim Elliot
Jim Elliot (1927–1956) Martyred Christian missionary to Ecuador
Quoted from The life of the Rev. Philip Henry, A.M., Matthew Henry, J. B. Williams, pub. W. Ball, 1839 p. 35 ( Google Books http://books.google.com/books?id=BUfCH_MaUS8C) <br class="br">Misattributed
“He, who will not reason, is a bigot; he, who cannot, is a fool; and he, who dares not, is a slave.”
William Drummond of Logiealmond (1770–1828) Scottish diplomat and Member of Parliament, poet and philosopher
in Academical Questions (1805), Preface, p. 15 http://books.google.com/books?id=U9FOAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR15
“He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.”
Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919) American businessman and philanthropist
“A fool boasts about what little he knows. A wise man keeps quiet about what he knows and is safe.”
Sarvajna Kannada poet, pragmatist and philosopher
Flowers of Wisdom
“Give him threepence, since he must make gain out of what he learns.”
Euclid (-323–-285 BC) Greek mathematician, inventor of axiomatic geometry
Said to be a remark made to his servant when a student asked what he would get out of studying geometry. <br class="br">'threepence' renders τριώβολον "three-obol-piece". This amount increases the sarcasm of Euclid's reply, as it was the standard fee of a Dikastes for attending a court case (μίσθος δικαστικός), thus inverting the role of teacher and pupil to that of accused and juror. <br class="br">The English translation is by The History of Greek Mathematics by Thomas Little Heath (1921), p. 357 http://books.google.com/books?id=h4JsAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA357#v=onepage&q&f=false. The quote is recorded by Stobaeus' Florilegium iv, 114 ( ed. Teubner 1856 http://www.archive.org/stream/iohannisstobaei00meingoog#page/n598/mode/2up, p. 205; see also here http://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.ch/2011/04/anecdote-about-euclid.html). Stobaeus attributes the anecdote to Serenus. <br class="br">Attributed
“What profit it a man if he gain the whole world but in this enterprise lose his soul?”
Philip K. Dick book The Man in the High Castle
Source: The Man in the High Castle
