The difference between a professional person and a technician is that a technician knows everything about his job except its ultimate purpose and his place in the scheme of things.
—Richard Livingstone
Topics: Technology
The young, whether they know it or not, live on borrowed property.
—Richard Livingstone
Topics: Youth
I doubt if anything learnt at school is of more value than great literature learnt by heart.
—Richard Livingstone
Topics: Literature
Our danger is not too few, but too many options … to be puzzled by innumerable alternatives.
—Richard Livingstone
Topics: Decisions
There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism is only the burying beetle that gets rid of what is dead, and, since the world lives by creative and constructive forces, and not by negation and destruction, it is better to grow up in the company of prophets than of critics.
—Richard Livingstone
Topics: Education
Wondering Whom to Read Next?
- A. E. Housman English Scholar, Poet
- Adam Clarke British Methodist Scholar
- C. Northcote Parkinson British Historian
- Warren Bennis American Management Consultant
- Enoch Powell British Politician
- Charles William Eliot American Educator
- Shantideva Indian Buddhist Scholar
- Dero A. Saunders American Journalist
- Petrarch Italian Scholar
- Louis Leo Snyder American-born German Scholar
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