Adam Smith (1723–1790) Scottish moral philosopher and political economist
Source: (1776), Book I, Chapter XI, Part III, (Conclusion..) p. 282.
“Almost all men improve on acquaintance.”
Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939), The Art of Friendship
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Donald Ervin Knuth (1938) American computer scientist
Donald Knuth, quoted in: Arturo Gonzalez-Gutierrez (2007) Minimum-length Corridors: Complexity and Approximations. p. 99
“Almost anything can be improved with the addition of bacon.”
Jasper Fforde (1961) British novelist
Source: Shades of Grey
William Winwood Reade (1838–1875) British historian
Source: The Martyrdom of Man (1872), Chapter IV, "Intellect"
“Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves.”
James Allen book As a Man Thinketh
Source: As a Man Thinketh
“All men are almost led to believe not of proof, but by attraction.”
Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher
The Art of Persuasion
Context: All men are almost led to believe not of proof, but by attraction. This way is base, ignoble, and irrelevant; every one therefore disavows it. Each one professes to believe and even to love nothing but what he knows to be worthy of belief and love.
“Men that love wisdom must be acquainted with very many things indeed.”
Heraclitus (-535) pre-Socratic Greek philosopher
As quoted Clement of Alexandria, Stromata, V, 140, 6 (Fragment 35)
Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot (1796–1832) French physicist, the "father of thermodynamics" (1796–1832)
p, 125
Reflections on the Motive Power of Heat (1824)