#latter

I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him. ↗

— Richard Steele

#below #cannot #character #envies #except

Don't confuse hypothesis and theory. The former is a possible explanation; the latter, the correct one. The establishment of theory is the very purpose of science. ↗

— Martin H. Fischer

#correct #establishment #explanation #former #hypothesis

They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a prince as soon as his groom. ↗

— Ben Jonson

#beast #brave #flatterer #groom #his

In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#flatter #lie #only #politics #today

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

#being #former #given #hand #latter

Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer. ↗

— E. F. Schumacher

#century #civilization #contemplate #daring #energy

I find America falling in love with a TV show flattering and interesting, but at the same time a little sad. ↗

— David Schwimmer

#falling #falling in love #find #flattering #i

The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent. ↗

— Neal Stephenson

#difference #educated #educated people #facts #ignorant

An image has stuck for most of my career and it isn't flattering. ↗

— Robbie Fowler

#flattering #image #most #stuck

The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers. ↗

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

#bold #both #conquers #difficulties #diminishes