“The right kind of leisure is better than the wrong kind of work.”
Más vale el buen ocio que el negocio.
Maxim 247
The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1647)
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Anne Lamott 146
Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist 1954Related quotes
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John Maynard Keynes
(1883–1946) British economist
Not attributed to Keynes until after his death. The original quote comes from Carveth Read and is:
It is better to be vaguely right than exactly wrong.
Logic, deductive and inductive (1898), p. 351 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/18440/18440-h/18440-h.htm#Page_351
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Samuel Butler
(1835–1902) novelist
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“Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.”
Winston S. Churchill
(1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Charlemagne
(748–814) King of the Franks, King of Italy, and Holy Roman Emperor
"De Litteris Colendis", in Jean-Barthélemy Hauréau De la philosophie scolastique (1850) p. 10; translation from T. H. Huxley Science and Education ([1893] 2007) p. 132; in Latin, Quamvis enim melius sit benefacere quam nosse, prius tamen est nosse quam facere.
“I've learned…. That being kind is more important than being right.”
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
(1940) American writer
Source: Live and Learn and Pass It On, Volume II: People Ages 5 to 95 Share What They've Discovered About Life, Love, and Other Good Stuff
“Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.”
Bruce Lee
(1940–1973) Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and filmmaker
“It is far better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains.”
Thomas Henry Huxley
(1825–1895) English biologist and comparative anatomist
“Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.”
Tony Blair
(1953) former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Hansard http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200506/cmhansrd/vo051109/debtext/51109-03.htm#51109-03_spmin10, House of Commons, 6th series, vol. 439, col. 302.
9 November 2005, responding to Charles Kennedy in the House of Commons during Prime Minister's Questions. Blair was referring to the likely defeat in Parliament of additional powers to detain terror suspects without charge, which happened later that day.
2000s