Más vale el buen ocio que el negocio.
Maxim 247
The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1647)
Más vale el buen ocio que el negocio.
The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1647)
“It's better to be kind than to be right.”
“It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.”
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
Misattributed
Equus (Longman, [1973] 1993), p. 11
Conferː "Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different kinds of right."
Interviewed by Mike Wood for the William Inge Center for the Arts. http://www.ingecenter.org/interviews/PeterShaffertext.htm
Clocks http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext97/jjclk10.txt.
“Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.”
Eating and Proselytising
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part VI - Mind and Matter
“A cup of kindness is better than a whole bottle of mercy can be.”
Song
“Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.”
Source: The Great Crash, 1929 (1954 and 1997 https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25728842M/The_Great_Crash_1929), Chapter V, The Twilight of Illusion, Section VII, p. 85
“It is far better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains.”
