Top 32 William Beveridge Quotes
#1. Evelyn Waugh: How do you get your main pleasure in life, Sir William?
Sir William Beveridge: I get mine trying to leave the world a better place than I found it.
Waugh: I get mine spreading alarm and despondency and I get more satisfaction than you do.
Evelyn Waugh
#2. There is a very important distinction between a critical attitude of mind (or critical faculty) and a sceptical attitude.
William Beveridge
#3. And you fall, and you crawl, and you break, what you get, and you turn it into honesty and promise you're never going to find you're faking, no no no.
Avril Lavigne
#4. A cockle-fish may as soon crowd the ocean into its narrow shell, as vain man ever comprehend the decrees of God!
William Beveridge
#5. The State, in organizing security should not stifle incentive, opportunity, responsibility; in establishing a national minimum, it should leave room and encouragement for voluntary action by each individual to provide more than that minimum for himself and his family.
William Beveridge
#6. There is no inherent mechanism in our present system which can with certainty prevent competitive sectional bargaining for wages from setting up a vicious spiral of rising prices under full employment.
William Beveridge
#7. If the way of heaven be narrow, it is not long; and if the gate be straight, it opens into endless life.
William Beveridge
#8. In three word I can explain the meaning of life: love is life.
Debasish Mridha
#9. I have spent most of my life most happily making plans for others to carry out.
William Beveridge
#10. Scratch a pessimist and you will often find a defender of privilege.
William Beveridge
#11. Cultivate an intellectual habit of subordinating one's opinions and wishes to objective evidence and a reverence for things as they really are.
William Ian Beardmore Beveridge
#12. No one believes an hypothesis except its originator but everyone believes an experiment except the experimenter.
William Beveridge
#13. The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the de e to lead anyone.
William Beveridge
#14. Elaborate apparatus plays an important part in the science of to-day, but I sometimes wonder if we are not inclined to forget that the most important instrument in research must always be the mind of man.
William Ian Beardmore Beveridge
#15. Scratch a pessimist and you find often a defender of privilege.
William Beveridge
#16. Hypothesis is a toll which can cause trouble if not used properly. We must be ready to abandon our hypothesis as soon as it is shown to be inconsistent with the facts.
William Ian Beardmore Beveridge
#17. A journey of four hundred and thirty miles can be made in any part of the United States, but in Turkey it takes as many days.
Ellsworth Huntington
#18. One more fagot of these adamantine bandages is the new science of Statistics.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#19. Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.
William Beveridge
#20. The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man.
William Beveridge
#21. Did it ever occur to anyone that if you put nice libraries in public schools you wouldn't have to put them in prisons?
Fran Lebowitz
#22. When adults first become conscious of something new, they usually either attack or try to escape from it ... Attack includes such mild forms as ridicule, and escape includes merely putting out of mind.
William Ian Beardmore Beveridge
#23. Silence is the voice of the mystery. Silence let us dream again.
John O'Donohue
#24. Paradoxical as it may at first appear, the fact is that, as W. H. George has said, scientific research is an art, not a science.
William Ian Beardmore Beveridge
#25. What, exactly, is a father if not a man who, once you're grown and gone and out in the world making your own mistakes, all good advice be damned, waits patiently for you to return? And if you don't, well then, you don't. He understands that risk. He knows whose choice it is.
Julia Glass
#28. The human mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with a similar energy.
William Beveridge
#30. The state is or can be master of money, but in a free society it is master of very little else.
William Beveridge
#31. Let us proportion our alms to our ability, lest we provoke God to proportion His blessings to our alms.
William Beveridge
#32. Unemployment is like a headache or a high temperature - unpleasant and exhausting but not carrying in itself any explanation of its cause.
William Beveridge
