Young men are fitter to invent than to judge, fitter for execution than for counsel, and fitter for new projects than for settled business.
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Of Youth and Age.Francis Bacon
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Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.
Anne Bradstreet
What is the use of speech? Silence were fitter:
Lest we should still be wishing things unsaid.
Though all the words we ever spake were bitter,
Shall I reproach you, dead?George William Russell
[Even Darwin’s] natural selection only predicts that survivors will be fit enough, that is, fitter than their losing competitors; it postulates satisficing, not optimizing.
Herbert Simon
Some pious men may find this truth unorthodox and bitter:
But Nature, Chance, and Time ensure survival of the fitter!Robert Charles Wilson
Every man is, no doubt, by nature, first and principally recommended to his own care; and as he is fitter to take care of himself than of any other person, it is fit and right that it should be so.
Adam Smith
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