Charles Caleb Colton citáty
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Charles Caleb Colton
Datum narození: 1780
Datum úmrtí: 1832
Další jména:Charle Caleb Colton
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Charles Caleb Colton byl britský kněz a spisovatel.
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„Jestli chceš být znám a nic nevědět, přebývej na vesnici; jestli chceš vědět a nebýt znám, žij ve městě.“
— Charles Caleb Colton
Daniel Weis: Everlasting Wisdom, Paragon Publishing, Rothersthorpe, 2010, ISBN 978-1-907611-48-3, přeložil Zdeněk Vrbík
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„When you have nothing to say, say nothing;“
— Charles Caleb Colton
Context: When you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply.
Vol. I; CLXXXIII
„To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it;“
— Charles Caleb Colton
Context: To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it; the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary.
Vol. I; CCCCXXVII (7th Edition, published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, in 1821)
„It is almost as difficult to make a man unlearn his errors as his knowledge. Mal-information is more hopeless than non-information; for error is always more busy than ignorance. Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase. Ignorance is contented to stand still with her back to the truth; but error is more presumptuous, and proceeds in the same direction. Ignorance has no light, but error follows a false one. The consequence is, that error, when she retraces her footsteps, has further to go, before she can arrive at the truth, than ignorance.“
— Charles Caleb Colton
Vol. I; I
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