“Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information.”
Address at University of Exeter (26 October 1978)
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American diplomat 1919–1988Related quotes
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Terminus http://www.humanitiesweb.org/human.php?s=l&p=c&a=p&ID=20600&c=323 <br class="br">1860s, May-Day and Other Pieces (1867)
“Of Christian souls more have been wrecked on shore
Than ever were lost at sea.”
Charles Henry Webb (1834–1905) American poet
With a Nantucket Shell, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Alfred Noyes (1880–1958) English poet
Epilogue
The Flower of Old Japan and Other Poems (1907), The Flower of Old Japan
Context: p>Carol, every violet has
Heaven for a looking-glass!Every little valley lies
Under many-clouded skies;
Every little cottage stands
Girt about with boundless lands;
Every little glimmering pond
Claims the mighty shores beyond;
Shores no seaman ever hailed,
Seas no ship has ever sailed.All the shores when day is done
Fade into the setting sun,
So the story tries to teach
More than can be told in speech.</p
“I never was on the dull, tame shore,
But I loved the great sea more and more.”
Bryan Procter (1787–1874) English poet
The Sea, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“The shore that has no shore beyond.”
Alfred Noyes (1880–1958) English poet
Epilogue
The Flower of Old Japan and Other Poems (1907), The Flower of Old Japan
Context: p>We have come by curious ways
To the Light that holds the days;
We have sought in haunts of fear
For that all-enfolding sphere:
And lo! it was not far, but near.We have found, O foolish-fond,
The shore that has no shore beyond.Deep in every heart it lies
With its untranscended skies;
For what heaven should bend above
Hearts that own the heaven of love?</p
Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator
This Business of Living (1935-1950)
Alfred Noyes (1880–1958) English poet
Epilogue
The Flower of Old Japan and Other Poems (1907), The Flower of Old Japan
Context: p>Carol, every violet has
Heaven for a looking-glass!Every little valley lies
Under many-clouded skies;
Every little cottage stands
Girt about with boundless lands;
Every little glimmering pond
Claims the mighty shores beyond;
Shores no seaman ever hailed,
Seas no ship has ever sailed.All the shores when day is done
Fade into the setting sun,
So the story tries to teach
More than can be told in speech.</p
John Dowland (1563–1626) English Renaissance composer, lutenist, and singer
Thomas Fuller The History of the Worthies of England ([1662] 1840), vol. 2, p. 426.
Criticism
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
Source: The Doctrine of the Mean