Timothy Mason quotes

Timothy Mason quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Trust is probably the intangible, and cultivated of all characteristic.”
-- Timothy Mason

#Trust Quotes #Characteristics Quotes #Intangible Quotes

“If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. -Speech at Clinton, Illinois, September 8, 1854.”
“All advertising, whether it lies in the field of business or of politics, will carry success by continuity and regular uniformity of application.”
“I knew a pure heart who refused tot be mistrustful.... He had written at his doorstep: "From wherever you are, enter and be welcome". Who do you think responded to this lovely invitation? The militia, who made themselves at home and gutted him.”
“It is a characteristic of pleasure that we can never recognize it to be pleasure till after it is gone.”

Source : Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.60
“Another characteristic of mathematical thought is that it can have no success where it cannot generalize.”
“The chief characteristics of the [liberal] attitude are human sympathy, a receptivity to change, and a scientific willingness to follow reason rather than faith.”
“Maybe this is a characteristic of happy people. An ability to be entertained by the world.”
“Particularity and separability are infirmities of the mind, not characteristics of the universe.”
“A song is the most intangible thing in the world.”
“Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.”

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