“Before one may scare the plain people one must first have a firm understanding of the bugaboos that most facilely alarm them. One must study the schemes that have served to do it in the past, and one must study very carefully the technic of the chief current professionals.”
H.L. Mencken
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
Similar quotes
“To acquire knowledge, one must study;but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.”
Marilyn Vos Savant
“The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread; but before bread, one must have the ideal.”
Victor Hugo
The Memoirs of Victor Hugo
“To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.”
Charles-Victor De Bonstettin
“A mind of moderate capacity which closely pursues one study must infallibly arrive at great proficiency in that study.”
Mary Shelley
Frankenstein
“The part of the philanthropist is indeed a dangerous one; and the man who would do his neighbour good must first study how not to do him evil, and must begin by pulling the beam out of his own eye.”
George MacDonald
Lilith