Professions and Work Quotes

We see men fall from high estate on account of the very faults through which they attained it

I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution

Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration

Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls

You should trust any man in his own art provided he is skilled in it.

In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone

My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious

The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span

I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early

We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him

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

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.

Love labour: for if thou dost not want it for food, thou mayst for physic.

Do thine own work honestly and cheerfully.

Man is a Tool-using Animal.