Lyman Bryson famous quotes

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The error of youth is to believe that intelligence is a substitute for experience, while the error of age is to believe experience is a substitute for intelligence.
-- Lyman Bryson

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The qualities that get a man into power are not those that lead him, once established, to use power wisely.
-- Lyman Bryson

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Philosophers are capable of almost endless enjoyment of mutual misunderstanding.
-- Lyman Bryson

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Education is anything that we do for the purpose of taking advantage of the experience of some one else.
-- Lyman Bryson

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You can have whatever you want if you believe in yourself and keep your feet firmly planted in the ground.
I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, "What happened next?
Where but in the very ***** of comedown is redemption: as where but brought low, where but in the grief of failure, loss, error do we discern the savage afflictions that turn us around: where but in the arrangements love crawls us through
Many persons who are not conversant with mathematical studies imagine that because the business of [Babbageâ€™s Analytical Engine] is to give its results in numerical notation, the nature of its processes must consequently be arithmetical and numerical, rather than algebraical and analytical. This is an error. The engine can arrange and combine its numerical quantities exactly as if they were letters or any other general symbols; and in fact it might bring out its results in algebraical notation, were provisions made accordingly.
Of all the pitfalls in our paths and the tremendous delays and wanderings off the track, I want to say that they are not what they seem to be. I want to say that all that seems like fantastic mistakes are not mistakes, all that seems like error is not error; and it all has to be done. That which seems like a false step is the next step.
Error sometimes supplies the surprise that makes life interesting.
I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked.
I do not believe that there are any such things as gods and goddesses, for exactly the same reasons as I do not believe there are fairies, goblins or sprites, and these reasons should be obvious to anyone over the age of ten.
I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
By the time I'm 40, interplanetary travel will be common. Nobody will want to talk to me at that age, anyway.

Lyman Bryson famous quotes

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