Tracing Quotations
Josiah Stamp? Apocryphal? Question for Quote Investigator: An influential banker once commented on the growing skepticism of U.S. citizens: Heaven help America when she loses faith in slogans Would you please tell me what prompted this remark and who delivered it? Reply from Quote Investigator: In 1929 the United States experienced the stock market crash …
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Josiah Stamp? Vivian F. Rausch? David Dodge? Hugh Overman? Ted Healy? Anonymous? Question for Quote Investigator: Life impressions differ dramatically between people with sunny dispositions versus morose temperaments. This point is cleverly illustrated via the disparate reactions elicited by a container partially filled with liquid: The optimist says the container is half full. The pessimist …
Ayn Rand? Henry F. Cope? Josiah Stamp? Apocryphal? Question for Quote Investigator: Here are two versions of an expression attributed to the influential and controversial novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand: A student would like to use Rand’s words as a quotation for the high school yearbook, but the editors have asked for a proper source. …
John Maynard Keynes? Josiah Stamp? Ernest Brown? Anonymous? Question for Quote Investigator: The most outrageous quotation about education that I have ever heard has been attributed to the famous economist John Maynard Keynes. Here are three versions: 1) Education is the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the ignorant by the incompetent. 2) Education: the inculcation …