George Will
George Will
George Frederick Willis an American newspaper columnist and political commentator. He is a Pulitzer Prize–winner known for his conservative commentary on politics. In 1986, The Wall Street Journal called him "perhaps the most powerful journalist in America," in a league with Walter Lippmann...
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth4 May 1941
simple rewards life-is
A simple life is its own reward.
wisdom men intelligence
Men almost universally have acknowledged providence, but that fact has had no force to destroy natural aversions and fears in the presence of events.
ideas progress would-be
Thought is essentially practical in the sense that but for thought no motion would be an action, no change a progress.
running ideas errors
The scientific value of truth is not, however, ultimate or absolute. It rests partly on practical, partly on aesthetic interests. As our ideas are gradually brought into conformity with the facts by the painful process of selection,-for intuition runs equally into truth and into error, and can settle nothing if not controlled by experience,-we gain vastly in our command over our environment. This is the fundamental value of natural science
death dark birth
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colours of life in all their purity.
way world earth
A way foolishness has of revenging itself is to excommunicate the world.
believe volcanoes people
People never believe in volcanoes until the lava actually overtakes them.
wise men talking
In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.
religion atheism firsts
Fear first created the gods.
achievement creative action
Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
commitment foundation needs
The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations.
enemy weapons dangerous
Words are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy.
fun charity good-things
Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.
selfish men inferiority
Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own infinitude, and his infinitude is, in one sense, overcome.