John Scott (1751–1838) British barrister and politician, born 1751
Sheldon v. Goodrich, 8 Ves. 481, 497 (1803)
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“An average idea enthusiastically embraced will go further than a genius idea no one gets.”
Jay Samit (1961) American businessman
Source: Disrupt You! (2015), p.93
“Either mathematics is too big for the human mind, or the human mind is more than a machine.”
Kurt Gödel (1906–1978) logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics
As quoted in Topoi : The Categorial Analysis of Logic (1979) by Robert Goldblatt, p. 13
John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet
Letter to his brother, (January 23, 1818)
Letters (1817–1820)
“Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.”
William Cobbett (1763–1835) English pamphleteer, farmer and journalist
“To a Father,” letter 5.
Advice to Young Men (1829)
“The human mind is never better disposed to gratitude and attachment than when softened by fear.”
Charles James Napier (1782–1853) Commander-in-Chief in British India
Farwell, Byron: Queen Victoria's Little Wars, p. 27-31
Friedrich Nietzsche book The Will to Power
Sec. 685 (Notebook W II 5. Spring 1888, KGW VIII, 3.95-7, KSA 13.303-5)
The Will to Power (1888)
Étienne Gilson (1884–1978) French historian and philosopher
Methodical Realism
“I realized my obligations to others should be greater than my obligations to myself.”
Ben Carson (1951) 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon
Source: Take The Risk (2008), p. 152
“We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.”
François de La Rochefoucauld book Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
On aime mieux dire du mal de soi-même que de n'en point parler.
Maxim 138.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
“Their feet through faithless leather met the dirt,
And oftener chang'd their principles than shirt.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) English poet
To Mr. Pope, epistle I, l. 277.
“Psychics exploit the human being's natural desire that longs for something higher than themselves.”
Christine O'Donnell (1969) American Tea Party politician and former Republican Party candidate
TV appearances
“It was a room where you had no reason for sitting in one place rather than in another.”
George Eliot book Middlemarch
Ch. 54 http://books.google.com/books?id=A2wOAAAAQAAJ&q=%22It+was+a+room+where+you+had+no+reason+for+sitting+in+one+place+rather+than+in+another%22&pg=PA187#v=onepage <br class="br">Middlemarch (1871)
Tom Stoppard (1937) British playwright
Interview http://books.google.com/books?id=PubwLmgAcd0C&q=&quot;It+seems+pointless+to+be+quoted+if+one+isn't+going+to+be+quotable&quot;+&quot;it's+better+to+be+quotable+than+honest&quot;&pg=PA49#v=onepage with Janet Watts that appeared in The Guardian newspaper 21 March 1973.
“Making money is not without its value, but nothing is baser than to make it by wrong-doing.”
Democritus Ancient Greek philosopher, pupil of Leucippus, founder of the atomic theory
Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907), The Golden Sayings of Democritus
Richard Owen (1804–1892) English biologist
as stated in "Darwin on the Origin of Species", "Edinburgh Review", 3, 1860, pages 487-532.
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“To arm a hand more powerful than your own
Is an ill method to maintain the throne.”
Ludovico Ariosto book Orlando Furioso
Non è la via di dominar, se vuoi
Por l'arme in mano a chi può più di noi.
Canto XX, stanza 52 (tr. W. S. Rose)
Orlando Furioso (1532)
“I don't see why he's any less of a candidate for the than Barack Obama.”
Boris Johnson (1964) British politician, historian and journalist
Source: Boris Johnson: Why Trump could deserve Nobel Peace Prize http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-44034266/boris-johnson-why-trump-could-deserve-nobel-peace-prize (7 May 2018)
“Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.”
Tony Blair (1953) former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Hansard http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200506/cmhansrd/vo051109/debtext/51109-03.htm#51109-03_spmin10, House of Commons, 6th series, vol. 439, col. 302. <br class="br">9 November 2005, responding to Charles Kennedy in the House of Commons during Prime Minister's Questions. Blair was referring to the likely defeat in Parliament of additional powers to detain terror suspects without charge, which happened later that day. <br class="br">2000s
“A death was more than an ending; it was like pulling a thread from a richly patterned cloth.”
Keith Roberts book Pavane
First measure “The Lady Margaret” (p. 17)
Pavane (1968)