Thursday, November 21, 2024 Text is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 licence.

Dr. Laurence J. Peter

« All quotes from this author
 

The habitually punctual make all their mistakes right on time.
--
p. 181

 
Dr. Laurence J. Peter

» Dr. Laurence J. Peter - all quotes »



Tags: Dr. Laurence J. Peter Quotes, Time Quotes, Authors starting by P


Similar quotes

 

Stalin made mistakes. He made mistakes towards us, for example, in 1927. He made mistakes towards the Yugoslavs too. One cannot advance without mistakes... It is necessary to make mistakes. The party cannot be educated without learning from mistakes. This has great significance.

 
Mao Zedong
 

Goethe as an old man: he was so very punctual. At that time he also wrote many things that were very punctual. The rounded thing is boring. Turn it as you may, it remains round and pretty.
I love the edges, the sharp lines, and fractures.
I show to him a picture of Dostoevsky. How ruptured, furrowed, tormented!
He looks like Michelangelo; the face of an endurer and a prophet.

 
Joseph Goebbels
 

The beauty of “spacing” children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones — which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.

 
Sydney J. Harris
 

It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes. It may even lie on the surface; but we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions — especially selfish ones.

 
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
 

Journalists who make mistakes get sued for libel; historians who make mistakes get to publish a revised edition.

 
Bill Moyers
© 2009–2013Quotes Privacy Policy | Contact