Famous quotes containing the words design, theory and/or instruction:
“Humility is often only the putting on of a submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them; it is a more calculated sort of pride, which debases itself with a design of being exalted; and though this vice transform itself into a thousand several shapes, yet the disguise is never more effectual nor more capable of deceiving the world than when concealed under a form of humility.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (16131680)
“Could Shakespeare give a theory of Shakespeare?”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“Everything from airplanes to kitchen blendersand even chopstickscomes with an instruction manual. Children, despite all their complexity, do not.”
—Lawrence Kutner (20th century)
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