George Will
George Will
George Frederick Willis an American newspaper columnist and political commentator. He is a Pulitzer Prize–winner known for his conservative commentary on politics. In 1986, The Wall Street Journal called him "perhaps the most powerful journalist in America," in a league with Walter Lippmann...
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth4 May 1941
science giving able
Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.
real people dreamer
The real people of genius were resolute workers not idle dreamers.
science poet accounts
Science is not addressed to poets.
writing science library
Mathematicians do not write for the circulating library.
hygiene progress literature
Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress.
hygiene literature objects
The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse.
science vision facts
The discoverer and the poet are inventors; and they are so because their mental vision detects the unapparent, unsuspected facts, almost as vividly as ocular vision rests on the apparent and familiar.
heart two brain
Heart and Brain are the two lords of life. In the metaphors of ordinary speech and in the stricter language of science, we use these terms to indicate two central powers, from which all motives radiate, to which all influences converge.
literature insight good-literature
All good Literature rests primarily on insight.
running talent murder
Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families.
spontaneity individual
Individual experiences being limited and individual spontaneity feeble, we are strengthened and enriched by assimilating the experience of others.
amplification wealth rhetorical
There are occasions when the simplest and fewest words surpass in effect all the wealth of rhetorical amplification.
wise men often-is
It will often be a question when a man is or is not wise in advancing unpalatable opinions, or in preaching heresies; but it can never be a question that a man should be silent if unprepared to speak the truth as he conceives it.
writing desire done
To write much, and to write rapidly, are empty boasts. The world desires to know what you have done, and not how you did it.