— Arthur Ponsonby British Liberal and later Labour politician and pacifist 1871 - 1946
Falsehood in Wartime (1928), Introduction
„What would the Senate do with me, an inexperienced legislator who lacks the faculty of self-deception, essential requisite for anyone wanting to guide others.“
— Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, libro El gatopardo
Che cosa se ne farebbe il Senato di me, di un legislatore inesperto cui manca la facoltà d'ingannare sé stesso, questo requisito essenziale per chi voglia guidare gli altri?
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Che cosa se ne farebbe il Senato di me, di un legislatore inesperto cui manca la facoltà d'ingannare sé stesso, questo requisito essenziale per chi voglia guidare gli altri?
Il Gattopardo (1958)
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa7
1896 - 1957Citas similares
„You lack the requisite spine and testicular fortitude to study under me.“
— Patrick Rothfuss, libro El nombre del viento
Fuente: The Name of the Wind
„Who is the state senator? Do you want to give me his name? We'll destroy his career.“
— Donald J. Trump 45th President of the United States of America 1946
Trump responding to Sheriff Harold Eavenson's statement https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1SKm1hTWq0 about a Texas state senator proposing legislation to require convictions before sheriffs could receive forfeiture money. (7 February 2017)
2010s, 2017, February
„I wonder if anyone but me realizes what goes on in that head back of your deceptively sweet face.“
— Margaret Mitchell, libro Lo que el viento se llevó
Fuente: Gone with the Wind
— Robert Motherwell American artist 1915 - 1991
Quote, as cited by Grace Glueck, in 'Robert Motherwell, Master of Abstract, Dies', by Grace Glueck, 'New York Times, 18 July 1991 https://www.nytimes.com/1991/07/18/obituaries/robert-motherwell-master-of-abstract-dies.html
Motherwell's description of the surrealist method of psychic automatism, or 'artful scribbling', as he called it and applied it always. It involved a kind of 'free association' in which the pen or brush was allowed to wander on the surface, free from and not directed by the conscious mind
Undated
— Eleanor Roosevelt American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States 1884 - 1962
— Jair Bolsonaro Brazilian president elect 1955
On 12 July 2019, about nominating his son Eduardo to be ambassador to the United States. Brazil's Bolsonaro says nominating son as ambassador to U.S. is not nepotism https://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-bolsonaro-usa/brazils-bolsonaro-says-nominating-son-as-ambassador-to-u-s-is-not-nepotism-idUSKCN1U72A5. Reuters (12 July 2019).
— Karl Jaspers German psychiatrist and philosopher 1883 - 1969
The Question of German Guilt (1947)
Contexto: We are sorely deficient in talking with each other and listening to each other. We lack mobility, criticism and self-criticism. We incline to doctrinism. What makes it worse is that so many people do not really want to think. They want only slogans and obedience. They ask no questions and they give no answers, except by repeating drilled-in phrases. They can only assert and obey, neither probe nor apprehend. Thus they cannot be convinced, either. How shall we talk with people who will not go where others probe and think, where men seek independence in insight and conviction?
— Slavoj Žižek Slovene philosopher 1949
Fuente: The Plague of Fantasies (1997), Chapter One: The Seven Veils of Fantasy, p.9
— Johann Heinrich Lambert German mathematician, physicist and astronomer 1728 - 1777
Introduction, p. xxxix
The System of the World (1800)
— Alfred Binet French psychologist and inventor of the first usable intelligence test 1857 - 1911
Fuente: The development of intelligence in children, 1916, p. 42-43
— Mohan Bhagwat Indian activist 1950
On the Ghar Wapsi issue, " RSS leader Mohan Bhagwat justifies ‘ghar wapsi’, says will bring back our brothers who have lost their way http://indianexpress.com/article/india/politics/bhagwat-dares-oppn-says-if-dont-like-conversion-bring-law-against-it/", The Indian Express (21 December 2014)
2011-2014
„I don't want anyone who doesn't want me.“
— Oprah Winfrey American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist 1954
— U.G. Krishnamurti Indian philosopher 1918 - 2007
Stopped in Our Tracks, Book Two: Excerpts from U.G.'s Dialogues http://www.well.com/user/jct/chandra.htm (2005) by K. Chandrasekhar
— Charlemagne King of the Franks, King of Italy, and Holy Roman Emperor 748 - 814
Quoted in Notker's The Deeds of Charlemagne (translated 2008 by David Ganz)
„Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.“
— Samuel Johnson English writer 1709 - 1784
The Life of Pope http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/5101
Lives of the English Poets (1779–81)
— Albert Bandura, Self-efficacy mechanism in human agency
[Albert Bandura, 1982, Self-efficacy mechanism in human agency, American Psychologist, 37, 2, 122-147, 10.1037/0003-066X.37.2.122, 0003-066X] (p. 127)
„Precognition or self-deception?“
— Tanith Lee, libro Vazkor, Son of Vazkor
Book Two, Part III “The Island”, Chapter 3 (p. 219)
Vazkor, Son of Vazkor (1978)
