#himself

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#himself #judge #knowledge #laughter #set

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#before #credit #everlasting #himself #human

The charge was left entirely to himself from midnight until the rising of the sun; and if all the shepherds in the Forest had been there to have assisted him, they could not have effected it with greater propriety. ↗

— James Hogg

#been #charge #could #effected #entirely

I had brought up from Chile a contract agent whose cover was that of a newspaper publisher in Santiago, a young, very talented man, named Dave Phillips, who later on carved quite a career for himself in the agency. ↗

— E. Howard Hunt

#agent #brought #career #carved #chile

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#better #chance #commonly #company #contrivance

Growing up, politics never trickled down to the areas we come from. But people from Obama's camp, and Obama himself, reached out to me and asked for my help on the campaign. We've sat and had dinner, and we've spoken on the phone. He's a very sharp guy. Very charming. Very cool. ↗

— Jay-Z

#asked #camp #campaign #charming #come

We came from a family where we ran our own small business. Our dad made his own products. We made our own sausages, our own meatloafs, our own pickles. Dad had to do everything himself. He had to figure out how to finance his business. ↗

— Marcy Kaptur

#came #dad #everything #family #figure

The only successor to President Putin is President Putin himself and we could of course dream about President Putin stepping down voluntarily and picking out successor which would be probably as bad as him. ↗

— Garry Kasparov

#bad #could #course #down #dream

Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it. ↗

— Giorgio Vasari

#beautiful #creation #divine #first #god

I prefer a man who will burn the flag and then wrap himself in the Constitution to a man who will burn the Constitution and then wrap himself in the flag. ↗

— Craig Washington

#constitution #flag #himself #i #man