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
happiness success education
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
vision intelligence quickness
Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.
reality class two
The mass of mankind is divided into two classes, the Sancho Panza's who have a sense for reality, but no ideals, and the Don Quixote's with a sense for ideals, but mad.
science common-sense perception
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
prayer effort substitutes
Prayer is not a substitute for work; it is an effort to work further and be efficient beyond the range of one's powers.
horse focus mind
The human mind is not rich enough to drive many horses abreast and wants one general scheme, under which it strives to bring everything.
ignorance animal expression
The whole machinery of our intelligence, our general ideas and laws, fixed and external objects, principles, persons, and gods, are so many symbolic, algebraic expressions. They stand for experience; experience which we are incapable of retaining and surveying in its multitudinous immediacy. We should flounder hopelessly, like the animals, did we not keep ourselves afloat and direct our course by these intellectual devices. Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of fact.
insanity madness wonderful
Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity.
air wind clouds
Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.
friendship people mind
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.
art interesting effort
The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.
smoking stronger habit
Habit is stronger than reason.
love death philosopher
love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.
change children persistence
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted; it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians, in which instinct has learned nothing from experience.