Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swiftwas an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet and cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth30 November 1667
CountryIreland
writing yesterday rejection
You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday
funny education truth
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
military war games
War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
reading thinking age
We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.
inspirational leadership teacher
Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.
firsts reason persons
You cannot reason a person out of a position he did not reason himself into in the first place.
limping truth-and-lies lies-truth
Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
philosophy book writing
The most ignorant person, at a reasonable charge, and with a little bodily labour, might write books in philosophy, poetry, politics, laws, mathematics, and theology, without the least assistance from genius or study.
hands gambling complaining
I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand.
spring mean rivers
The first springs of great events, like those of great rivers, are often mean and little.
duty intuitive
We have an intuitive sense of our duty.
genius prodigies last-words
Ah, a German and a genius ! A prodigy, admit him !
success art men
I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.
dog love-is dirt
111 company is like a dog, who dirts those most whom he loves best.