Behavior which appears superficially correct but is intrinsically corrupt always irritates those who see below the surface
—James Bryant Conant
Topics: Behavior
Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance.
—James Bryant Conant
Topics: Performance, Effort
The dignity of man is vindicated as much by the thinker and poet as by the statesman and soldier.
—James Bryant Conant
Topics: Dignity
Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.
—James Bryant Conant
Topics: Achieving, Risk, Perspective, Courage, Discovery, Success
Some of mankind’s most terrible misdeeds have been committed under the spell of certain magic words or phrases.
—James Bryant Conant
Topics: Propaganda
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- Humphry Davy British Chemist
- Charles William Eliot American Educator
- Henry Adams American Historian
- Frank Moore Colby American Writer, Editor
- Henry Kissinger American Diplomat
- E. O. Wilson American Sociobiologist
- John Quincy Adams American Head of State
- Benjamin Franklin American Founding Father, Inventor
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