James Bryce Quotes (12 Quotes)


    The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.

    Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.

    Our community's understanding of the nature of transactional functions in a service-oriented system has improved considerably over the past few years, ... This new committee provides a very clear set of components for those functions. We are delighted to see the work brought into open standardization, which will help make its usefulness and connections to other methods obvious.

    Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its existence.

    No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford to be thrown out of their life's course by a mere accident.


    There is a hearty Puritanism in the view of human nature which pervades the instrument of 1787. It is the work of men who believed in original sin, and were resolved to leave open for transgressors no door which they could possibly shut.

    A political career brings out the basest qualities in human nature

    Goethe once said of someone, He is a dull man. If he were a book, I would not read him.

    Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity.

    Creating industry standards that provide real-world value is a collaborative effort involving experts and leaders from a broad cross-section of specialties,

    We have seen that the American Constitution has changed, is changing, and by the law of its existence must continue to change, in its substance and practical working even when its words remain the same

    Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know what he thinks he knows.


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