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P. Chidambaram5
Indian politician 1945Related quotes
“Democracy does not reside in speeches but in actual practices of its votaries.”
K. B. Hedgewar (1889–1940) Founding leader of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh
quoted from Dr Rakesh Sinha: Hedgewar, for posterity, Indian Express, https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/rss-founder-kb-hedgewar-ideology-pranab-mukherjee-nagpur-event-5217892/
“A certain large collective wisdom resides in a crowd, as such; and men whose individual judgement is defective are excellent judges when grouped together.”
In numero ipso est quoddam magnum collatumque consilium, quibusque singulis iudicii parum, omnibus plurimum.
Pliny the Younger (61–113) Roman writer
Letter 17, 10.
Letters, Book VII
“Silence does not always mark wisdom.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher
Ram Swarup (1920–1998) Indian historian
The World As Revelation: Names of Gods (1980)
“The scarcity of years does not necessitate lack of wisdom.”
James Clavell (1921–1994) American novelist
Shashi Tharoor (1956) Indian politician, diplomat, author
Media, Culture & Society, Vol. 27, No. 3, 371-390 (2005)DOI: 10.1177/0163443705051749, © 2005 SAGE Publications, "Creating immigrant identities in cybernetic space: examples from a non-resident Indian website, Available Online http://mcs.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/27/3/371 <br class="br">2000s
John Adams (1735–1826) 2nd President of the United States
Letter to Thomas Jefferson (17 January 1820). Often misquoted as "God is an essence that we know nothing of" and attached to a part of his 22 January 1825 letter to Thomas Jefferson.
1820s
“thus men forgot that all deities reside in the human breast.”
William Blake book The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Source: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793), Proverbs of Hell, Line 71
Context: The ancient poets animated all objects with Gods or Geniuses, calling them by the names and adorning them with the properties of woods, rivers, mountains, lakes, cities, nations, and whatever their enlarged & numerous senses could perceive. And particularly they studied the genius of each city & country, placing it under its mental deity; Till a system was formed, which some took advantage of, & enslav'd the vulgar by attempting to realize or abstract the mental deities from their objects: thus began priesthood; Choosing forms of worship from poetic tales. And at length they pronounc'd that the Gods had order'd such things. Thus men forgot that all deities reside in the human breast.