Eric Linklater quotes

“For the scientific acquisition of knowledge is almost as tedious as the routine acquisition of wealth.”
-- Eric Linklater

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“All I've got against golf is it takes you so far from the clubhouse.”
-- Eric Linklater

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“There won't be any revolution in America ... the people are too clean. They spend all their time changing their shirts and washing themselves. You can't feel fierce and revolutionary in a bathroom.”
-- Eric Linklater

Source : 'Juan in America' (1931) bk. 5, pt. 3

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“It is notorious that we speak no more than half-truths in our ordinary conversation, and even a soliloquy is likely to be affected by the apprehension that walls have ears.”
-- Eric Linklater

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“If the world were to end tomorrow and we could choose to save only one thing as the explanation and memorial to who we were, then we couldn't do better than the Natural History Museum, although it wouldn't contain a single human. The systematic Linnean order, the vast inquisitiveness and range of collated knowledge and beauty would tell all that is the best of us.”

Source : A.A. Gill (2008). “Previous Convictions: Assignments from Here and There”, p.80, Simon and Schuster

“I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.”

“I value science--none can prize it more, It gives ten thousand motives to adore: Be it religious, as it ought to be, The heart it humbles, and it bows the knee.”

Source : Abraham Coles (1866). “The Microcosm: A Poem, Read Before the Medical Society of New Jersey at Its Centenary Anniversary: with the Address Delivered as President, Jan. 24, 1866”, p.22

“Abundance is not a number or acquisition. It is the simple recognition of enoughness.”

“I recognize but one mental acquisition as a necessary part of the education of a lady or gentlemen, namely, an accurate and refined use of the mother tongue.”

“Each of us comes into life with fists closed, set for aggressiveness and acquisition. But when we abandon life our hands are open; there is nothing on earth that we need, nothing the soul can take with it.”

Source : Robert Collier (2013). “Riches Within Your Reach”, p.374, Simon and Schuster

“The foundation of economic development is the acquisition of more productive knowledge.”

“Most corporate name changes are the result of mergers and acquisitions. But these tend to be unimaginative.”

“The natural rhythm of human life is routine punctuated by orgies.”

“A gambit never becomes sheer routine as long as you fear you may lose the king and pawn ending!”