Professions and Work Quotes

Practice conquers the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule.

He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp posts – for support rather than illumination.

If I’d listened to my consumers, I’d have given them a faster horse

We can outrun the wind and the storm, but we cannot outrun the demon of hurry

Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.

A man always has two reasons for doing anything, a good reason and the real reason.

It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea

To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.

To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

Man lives for science as well as bread.