Book 1, Chapter 4 (p. 34)
Downbelow Station (1981)
“You’ve behaved very highhandedly, Captain Mallory. Is that the custom out here?”
“The custom is, sir, that those who know a situation handle it and those who don’t watch and learn, or get out of the way.”
Book 1, Chapter 4 (p. 34)
Downbelow Station (1981)
“The future lies with those companies who see the poor as their customers.”
C.K. Prahlad, cited in: Bibek Debroy, Amir Ullah Khan (2004), Integrating the Rural Poor Into Markets. p. 17
“Those who think they know it all have no way of finding out they don't..”
Quoted by Tom Peters, in Design Mindfullness, September 8, 2013 http://www.tompeters.com/docs/Design.pdf,
“The custom which was in those days”
Source: Guide for the Perplexed (c. 1190), Part III, Ch.32
Context: The custom which was in those days general among all men, and the general mode of worship in which the Israelites were brought up, consisted in sacrificing animals in those temples which contained certain images to bow down to those images, and to burn incense before them; religious and ascetic persons were in those days the persons that were devoted to the service in the temples erected to the stars... It was in accordance with the wisdom and plan of God, as displayed in the whole Creation, that He did not command us to give up and to discontinue all these manners of service, for to obey such a commandment it would have been contrary to the nature of man, who generally cleaves to that to which he is used... By this Divine plan it was effected that the traces of idolatry were blotted out, and the truly great principle of our faith, the existence and Unity of God, was firmly established; this result was thus obtained without deterring or confusing the minds of the people by the abolition of the service to which they were accustomed and which alone was familiar to them.
“Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know.”
Part 1, LXXI
Meditations of a Parish Priest (1866)
March 28, 1776, p. 296
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III
