Assuming Quote by John Mortimer Smith

The tendency of modern scientific teaching is to neglect the great books, to lay far too much stress upon relatively unimportant modern work, and…

— Ronald Fisher

Since the state must necessarily provide subsistence for the criminal poor while undergoing punishment, not to do the same for the poor who have…

— John Stuart Mill

In relative youth, we assume we'll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise.

— Dick Cavett

Poor teaching leads to the inevitable idea that the subject (mathematics) is only adapted to peculiar minds, when it is the one universal science…

— Henry John Stephen Smith

Teaching by precept, without example, is mighty poor teaching.

— Heber J. Grant

All morality depends upon our sentiments; and when any action or quality of the mind pleases us after a certain manner we say it…

— David Hume

Sir, you must not neglect doing a thing immediately good from fear of remote evil; -from fear of its being abused.

— Samuel Johnson

It is a well-settled principle of the international code that where one nation owes another a liquidated debt which it refuses or neglects to…

— Andrew Jackson

It is through the body that everything comes to the mind. It is through and with your body that you have to reach realization…

— B.K.S. Iyengar

I get letters every year from women who think Valentine's Day is an empty exercise, but are ironically pretty exercised when their boyfriends neglect…

— Dan Savage

There is all the difference in the world between departure from recognised rules by one who has learned to obey them, and neglect of…

— Ellen Terry

Every Latter-day Saint should make the study of this book a lifetime pursuit. Otherwise, he is placing his soul in jeopardy and neglecting that…

— Ezra Taft Benson