"As there are so many who talk prose without knowing it, or, again, who syllogize without having the least idea what a syllogism is, so economists have long been mathematicians without being aware of the fact."

-- William Stanley Jevons

#Ideas Quotes #Knowing Quotes #Long Quotes

“Better know nothing than half-know many things.”
“Once you start [filming] you have researchers who are constantly giving you information. Ultimately it isn't about impersonating or trying to be an image of somebody and more trying to capture the spirit and the soul of the person somehow.”
“If only we could see in advance all the harm that can come from the good we think we are doing.”

Source : Luigi Pirandello (2016). “Six Characters in Search of an Author”, p.79, Bloomsbury Publishing
“Don't try to control what's outside. Be at peace with what's inside.”
“Like most filmmakers and writers, there are roots in my own life, but they are stories that I invent. There was a period of time in my life when I made directly autobiographical films where I truly told what happened to me. But, now, I don't make directly autobiographical films anymore. I am more for renouncing that and being in front of history. The large part of my work tells about something I know. It's close.”
“The favorite device of the devil, ancient and modern, is to force a human being into a more or less artificial class, accuse the class of unnamed and unnameable sin, and then damn any individual in the alleged class, however innocent he may be.”
“What you discover about people you try not to offend is that you can offend them without trying.”
“Donald Trump didn't go to Vietnam. He said he had a medical problem. He got a medical deferment. Now his doctor says he's the healthiest man alive.”

Source : Source: abcnews.go.com

You may also like:

Adam Smith
Philosopher
Alfred Marshall
Economist
Carl Menger
Economist
David Ricardo
Economist
Irving Fisher
Economist
Jeremy Bentham
Philosopher
John Bates Clark
Economist
John Stuart Mill
Philosopher
Vilfredo Pareto
Economist