“Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.”
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
“Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.”
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841–1935) United States Supreme Court justice
United States v. Schwimmer, 279 U.S. 644 (1929) (Holmes, J., dissenting).
1920s
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) 32nd President of the United States
1930s, Quarantine Speech (1937)
Context: Those who cherish their freedom and recognize and respect the equal right of their neighbors to be free and live in peace must work together for the triumph of law and moral principles in order that peace, justice, and confidence may prevail in the world. There must be a return to a belief in the pledged word, in the value of a signed treaty. There must be recognition of the fact that national morality is as vital as private morality.
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Source: The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966
Donald Phillip Verene (1937) philosopher
Source: Philosophy and the Return to Self-Knowledge (1997), p. 169
“Those who look for seashells will find seashells; those who open them will find pearls.”
Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (1058–1111) Persian Muslim theologian, jurist, philosopher, and mystic
Alfred Nobel (1833–1896) Swedish chemist, innovator, and armaments manufacturer
As quoted in The Military Quotation Book (2002) by James Charlton, p. 114.
Elizabeth Goudge (1900–1984) English fiction writer
Source: Little White Horse