Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business because they are apt to go out of the common road by the quickness of their imagination. (Jonathan Swift)

Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business because they are apt to go out of the common road by the quickness of their imagination.

Jonathan Swift

Related topics

apt business common great imagination men management public quickness road unfortunate parts

Related quotes

Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are. View quote
Henry Fielding
I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them. View quote
Frank Sinatra
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - deliberate, contrived and dishonest - but the myth - persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. View quote
John F. Kennedy
The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal. View quote
David Brin
The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow