“Proper knowledge defeats the shouting minions of emotion.”
Source: What Entropy Means to Me (1972), Chapter 10 “The Final Struggle” (p. 160).
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“Oh, to be a minion," muttered Giac to himself dreamily. "I was a sub-minion.”
Garth Nix (1963) Australian fantasy writer
Source: The Keys to the Kingdom series, Lord Sunday (2010), p. 184.
“Emotions are a cancer in one's path to the road of prosperity in life, Emotions Defeat Reason.”
Hamis Kiggundu (1984) Ugandan business magnate, Internet entrepreneur, philanthropist, and author
Quoted from his first book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Success_and_Failure_Based_on_Reason_and_Reality, "Success and Failure Based on Reason and Reality" https://www.amazon.co.uk/SUCCESS-FAILURE-BASED-REASON-REALITY/dp/9970983903/ on Amazon, (July 2018)
Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1924–2018) 10th Prime Minister of India
New York September 7, 2000 Asia Society Annual Dinner
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“If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.”
Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Harold Gould Henderson (1889–1974) American art historian
Haiku in English'. Charles E. Tuttle 1967
“Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.”
Tom Watson (1874–1956) American businessman
Georges Bataille (1897–1962) French intellectual and literary figure
Source: L’Expérience Intérieure (1943), p. xxxiii