Famous quotes containing the words goldsmith and/or began:
“The jests of the rich are ever successful.”
—Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774)
“For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize.... And a man who is puzzled and wonders thinks himself ignorant ...; therefore since they philosophized in order to escape from ignorance, evidently they were pursuing science in order to know, and not for any utilitarian end.”
—Aristotle (384–322 B.C.)