Um ein tadelloses Mitglied einer Schafherde sein zu können, muß man vor allem ein Schaf sein.
The New Quotable Einstein
variant translation from Ideas and Opinions: "In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep."
1950s, Essay to Leo Baeck (1953)
“All kings will be reincarnated as lions and employees as flocks of sheep.”
“Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.”
From a speech given at the Royal Academy of Art in 1953; quoted in Time magazine (11 May 1954).
Post-war years (1945–1955)
The Day of the Triffids (1951), ch 10 - p.179
Source: Lateral Thinking : Creativity Step by Step (1970), p. 100; Cited in Virginia K. Baillie et al. (1989) Effective Nursing Leadership: A Practical Guide. p. 244.
Søren Kierkegaard, Writing Sampler, Nichol P. 89-90
1840s, Writing Sampler (1844)
“A group of sheep leading by one lion can defeat a group of lion leading by one sheep.”
Source: https://web.facebook.com/canlubochristian5 | Christian Canlubo personal Facebook account
“A sheep in sheep's clothing.”
On Ramsay MacDonald. This is often taken as referring to Clement Attlee, but Scottish historian D. W. Brogan is cited in Safire’s Political Dictionary (2008), William Safire, Oxford University Press US, p. 352 ISBN 0195343344 as follows: ‘Sir Winston Churchill never said of Clement Attlee that he was a sheep in sheep’s clothing. I have this on the excellent authority of Sir Winston himself. The phrase was totally inapplicable to Mr. Attlee. It was applicable, and applied, to J. Ramsay MacDonald, a very different kind of Labour leader.’
Early career years (1898–1929)
“A sheep in sheep's clothing.”
Edmund Gosse, quoted in Ferris Greenslet Under the Bridge: An Autobiography (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1943) p. 104.
Sometimes misattributed to Yeats.
Criticism
“A sheep in sheep's clothing.”
Of T. Sturge Moore, c. 1906
Quoted in Ferris Greenslet, Under the Bridge, ch.12.
