Another False Attribution?
“The capitalists will sell us the rope we use to hang them” is attributed sometimes to Lenin, sometimes to Stalin. But…in his “On Language” column …
Quotes
On Good Writing
“[A] piece of literature may be more appropriately compared with a living organism than with a mechanism. As Plato says in one of his dialogues, …
On Thinking
“Naturally, we begin by thinking, by asking ourselves questions and endeavoring to answer them.” (p. 101, Writing and Thinking by Norman Foerster and J.M. Steadman, …
A Mark Twain Quote
“We should be careful to get out of an experience all the wisdom that is in it – not like the cat that sits on …
Quote: Gottfried Leibniz
“Music is the pleasure the human soul experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.” (But I have not verified this one, i.e., …
Thomas Edison: A Quote
“The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand – …
Abraham Lincoln: A Quote Not His
Attributed to Lincoln, but falsely: “You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot help …
Michael Crichton: A Quote
In “Why Speculate?” (a speech given to the International Leadership Forum in La Jolla, California, on April 26, 2002), Mr. Crichton says: Briefly stated, the …
Fancis Bacon: A Quote, 2
“They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.” From p. 115 of the Second Book of …
Galileo: A Quote
Contra the Scholastics (and contra Bacon, from what I’ve heard of Bacon — though I’ll have to research on my own to see if Bacon …