cerbero.
@cerbero., membro de 12 de Abril de 2019
“Um homem nunca sabe aquilo de que é capaz até que o tenta fazer.”
Charles Dickens (1812–1870)
Variante: O homem nunca sabe do que é capaz, até que o tenta.
“Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.”
Washington Irving (1783–1859) writer, historian and diplomat from the United States
Attributed to Irving as early as 1883. [Hit and miss : a story of real life, Angie Stewart, Manly, Chicago, J.L. Regan, 1883, i, http://hdl.handle.net/2027/osu.32435018229575?urlappend=%3Bseq=7] However, it does not seem to appear in Irving's known works. Other citations from the same year leave the quotation unattributed. [Henry S. (ed.), Clubb, The Peacemaker and Court of Arbitration, Volume 1, Universal Peace Union, 1883, 125, Philadelphia, https://books.google.com/books?id=Uu84AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA125] [The Australian Women's Magazine and Domestic Journal, Vol. 2 No. 2 (May 1883), 1883, Melbourne, 435, https://books.google.com/books?id=mq0sAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA435]. A similar passage is found in a pseudonymous novel published two years earlier in 1881: "Julia knew that sacrifices to patience are not in vain. Although they often do not produce the happiness for which they are made, they will, always, flow back and soften and purify the heart of the one who makes them". [Illma, Or, Which was Wife?, Miss, M.L.A., Cornwell & Johnson, 1881, 239, New York, http://hdl.handle.net/2027/osu.32435017658592?urlappend=%3Bseq=245]
Disputed
“Uma língua afiada é a única ferramenta aguçada que melhora com o uso constante.”
Washington Irving livro The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
Fonte: "The Sketch Book, Rip Van Winkle"
Washington Irving (1783–1859)
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune ; but great minds rise above it <br class="br">"The Sketh Book" in "The complete works of Washington Irving in one volume: with a memoir of the author" - Página 321 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=LbELAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA321, Washington Irving - Baudry's European Library, 1843 - 1269 páginas
“Os grandes espíritos têm metas. Os outros apenas desejos.”
Washington Irving (1783–1859)
Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. <br class="br">citado em "Selected Tagalog proverbs and maxims" - Página 50, University Publ. Co., 1948 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=bwrn-Db7MCwC - 182 páginas
Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) Serbian American inventor
About the role of J. Pierpont Morgan, and the failure of Tesla's "World System" project
My Inventions (1919)
Contexto: He had the highest regard for my attainments and gave me every evidence of his complete faith in my ability to ultimately achieve what I had set out to do. I am unwilling to accord to some small−minded and jealous individuals the satisfaction of having thwarted my efforts. These men are to me nothing more than microbes of a nasty disease. My project was retarded by laws of nature. The world was not prepared for it. It was too far ahead of time, but the same laws will prevail in the end and make it a triumphal success.
“Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.”
Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) Serbian American inventor
Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) inventor sérvio-americano
Texto publicado na Century Illustrated Magazine, em Junho de 1900
Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) inventor sérvio-americano
Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality. <br class="br">Fonte: "Radio Power Will Revolutionize the World". Modern Mechanics and Inventions, July, 1934. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla