Kingman Brewster, Jr.
Kingman Brewster, Jr.
Kingman Brewster Jr.was an educator, president of Yale University, and American diplomat...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEducator
Date of Birth17 June 1919
CountryUnited States of America
Kingman Brewster, Jr. quotes about
desire use purpose
It is the natural desire of each nation to use the other as an instrument of its own purposes and policies. By dint of our mutual dependence, your influence is amplified by our power. Our power is made more responsible and more effective by your influence.
thinking bored interesting
Perhaps the most fundamental value of a liberal education is that it makes life more interesting. It allows you to think things which do not occur to the less learned ... it makes it less likely that you will be bored with life.
talking phones hell
If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious. I'm very curious to know what the hell they're saying on the phone, but I'd be more worried if they weren't talking.
interesting paper quiet
It won't make for a quiet life but it will make for an interesting paper vastly more significant because it is doing something only a daily paper can do.
presumption-of-innocence generosity spirit
The presumption of innocence is not just a legal concept. In commonplace terms, it rests on that generosity of spirit which assumes the best, not the worst, of the stranger.
creative suffering correlation
You and I know that there is a correlation between the creative and the screwball. So we must suffer the screwball gladly.
relief criminal-mind violence
There is no lasting hope in violence, only temporary relief from hopelessness.