"Hayek became in his later years the dominant intellectual influence of the last quarter of the twentieth century."

-- Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky

#Intellectual Quotes #Influence Quotes

“Trust me, I know what I'm doing,”
“I don't know if there are words to describe my motivation.”

Source : "U.S. Women's World Cup Soccer Hero Returns For Senior Year". Interview with Dave Lohse, www.goheels.com. August 2, 1999.
“Christian obligation cannot be made to accord with a law of expediency. The Christian's maxims are, Do right because you are bound to do right. Do right though the heavens fall. There is a world of difference between You had better and You are bound to.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 200, 1895.
“No it was not the novelty, and it was not the danger and the adventure (although these had their charm). It was certainly not a passing whim (if it had been the hard work would have dispelled it in a very short time!). I think there were three chief reasons for my choice of career: First, a real love for, and interest in aviation Secondly, a determination to earn my own money and to make my career a paying proposition. Thirdly, a conviction that aviation was a profession of the future and therefore had room to welcome its new followers.”
“Lean too much upon the approval of people, and it becomes a bed of thorns.”

Source : Tehyi Hsieh (1948). “Chinese epigrams inside out, and proverbs”
“It's fine to live in the now. But the best thing about now is that there's another one tomorrow. I'm going to start making them count.”
“The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant, "What good is it?" If the land mechanism as a whole is good, then every part is good, whether we understand it or not. If the biota, in the course of aeons, has built something we like but do not understand, then who but a fool would discard seemingly useless parts? To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.”
“The fact of our salvation being not something, but Someone, produces quietness of spirit and an unshakable confidence.”

Source : Herbert Lockyer (1988). “All the Doctrines of the Bible”, p.206, Harper Collins

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