William Beveridge Quotes
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Let us proportion our alms to our ability, lest we provoke God to proportion His blessings to our alms.
— William Beveridge
The human mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with a similar energy.
— William Beveridge
A cockle-fish may as soon crowd the ocean into its narrow shell, as vain man ever comprehend the decrees of God!
— William Beveridge
people sometimes do bad things because they are hurting, not because they are bad people.
— Kelli Jae Baeli
The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the de e to lead anyone.
— William Beveridge
Cultivate an intellectual habit of subordinating one's opinions and wishes to objective evidence and a reverence for things as they really are.
— William Ian Beardmore Beveridge
What do little birdies see when they get knocked unconscious?
— Steven Wright
Unemployment is like a headache or a high temperature - unpleasant and exhausting but not carrying in itself any explanation of its cause.
— William Beveridge
Ensure that your script is watertight. If it's not on the page, it will never magically appear on the screen.
— Richard E. Grant
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— Vladimir Nabokov
The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man.
— William Beveridge
I have spent most of my life most happily making plans for others to carry out.
— William Beveridge
Scratch a pessimist and you will often find a defender of privilege.
— William Beveridge
There is a very important distinction between a critical attitude of mind (or critical faculty) and a sceptical attitude.
— William Beveridge
No one believes an hypothesis except its originator but everyone believes an experiment except the experimenter.
— William Beveridge
Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.
— William Beveridge
Many discoveries must have been stillborn or smothered at birth. We know only those which survived.
— William Ian Beardmore Beveridge
If the way of heaven be narrow, it is not long; and if the gate be straight, it opens into endless life.
— William Beveridge
Paradoxical as it may at first appear, the fact is that, as W. H. George has said, scientific research is an art, not a science.
— William Ian Beardmore Beveridge
Scratch a pessimist and you find often a defender of privilege.
— William Beveridge