“The world is historically mentally illiterate.”
Tony Buzan (1942–2019) British psychologist
The Mind Map Book, Buzan and Buzan (1991)
Recommended quotes page 86
Zlatan Ibrahimović (1981) Swedish association football player
Talking about rumours where will he go http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2016/06/01/zlatan-ibrahimovic-keeps-man-utd-guessing-by-saying-he-is-excite/ <br class="br">Attributed
“Why, sir, there is every probability that you will soon be able to tax it.”
Michael Faraday (1791–1867) English scientist
Faraday's purported reply to William Gladstone, then British Chancellor of the Exchequer (minister of finance), when asked of the practical value of electricity (1850) as quoted in Democracy and Liberty (1899) by William Edward Hartpole Lecky, p. xxxi , and in Discovery Or The Spirit And Service Of Science (1918) by R.A Gregory, p 3. The variant "One day sir, you may tax it." is given in The Harvest of a Quiet Eye : A Selection of Scientific Quotations (1977), p. 56, but they source it to Discovery which differs in its quote. According to Snopes in "Long Ago and Faraday" http://www.snopes.com/quotes/faraday.asp, it is most likely an invented quotation, as there are no contemporaneous records, though Lecky did live through the same time as Faraday and Gladstone. <br class="br">Disputed
Ingmar Bergman (1918–2007) Swedish filmmaker
"Isak Borg" (Victor Sjöström) in Wild Strawberries (1957).
Films
James Watt (1736–1819) British engineer
"Notes on Professor Robison's Dissertation on Steam-engines" (1769)
Arnold Hauser (1892–1978) Hungarian art historian
The Social History of Art, Volume I. From Prehistoric Times to the Middle Ages, 1999, Chapter IV. The Middle Ages
“To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.”
Augustus (-63–14 BC) founder of Julio-Claudian dynasty and first emperor of the Roman Empire
Of Cato, as quoted in An Examination of the Isis Cult with Preliminary Exploration into New Testament Studies (2008) by Elizabeth A. McCabe
“The moon like a flower
In heaven's high bower,
With silent delight,
Sits and smiles on the night.”
Night, st. 1
1780s, Songs of Innocence (1789–1790)
“All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.”
Edward Gibbon (1737–1794) English historian and Member of Parliament
Edward Gibbon The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Source: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
“Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.”
Edward Gibbon (1737–1794) English historian and Member of Parliament
“Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.”
Edward Gibbon The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Vol. 1, Chap. 11.
The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire: Volume 1 (1776)
Source: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
“I make it a point never to argue with people for whose opinion I have no respect.”
Edward Gibbon (1737–1794) English historian and Member of Parliament
“Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.”
Edward Gibbon (1737–1794) English historian and Member of Parliament
Edward Gibbon The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Volume 1, Chapter 2 "Of the Union and Internal Prosperity of the Roman Empire, in the Age of the Antonines" http://www.ccel.org/ccel/gibbon/decline/files/volume1/chap2.htm. The portion regarding the views of the religions of the time taken by various constituencies has been misreported as Gibbon's own assessment of religion generally. See Paul F. Boller, John George, They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, and Misleading Attributions (1990), pp. 34–35.<br>The bold text has been misattributed to Lucretius and Seneca the Younger. <br class="br">The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire (1776) <br class="br">Source: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire <br class="br">Context: The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people, as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful. And thus toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord. <br class="br">Context: The policy of the emperors and the senate, as far as it concerned religion, was happily seconded by the reflections of the enlightened, and by the habits of the superstitious, part of their subjects. The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people, as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful. And thus toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord.<br>The superstition of the people was not embittered by any mixture of theological rancour; nor was it confined by the chains of any speculative system. The devout polytheist, though fondly attached to his national rites, admitted with implicit faith the different religions of the earth. Fear, gratitude, and curiosity, a dream or an omen, a singular disorder, or a distant journey, perpetually disposed him to multiply the articles of his belief, and to enlarge the list of his protectors. The thin texture of the Pagan mythology was interwoven with various but not discordant materials.