George Berkeley Quote

I imagine that thinking is the great desideratum of the present age; and the cause of whatever is done amiss may justly be reckoned the general neglect of education in those who need it most, the people of fashion. What can be expected where those who have the most influence have the least sense, and those who are sure to be followed set the worst examples?


Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical (1917)


I imagine that thinking is the great desideratum of the present age; and the cause of whatever is done amiss may justly be reckoned the general...

I imagine that thinking is the great desideratum of the present age; and the cause of whatever is done amiss may justly be reckoned the general...

I imagine that thinking is the great desideratum of the present age; and the cause of whatever is done amiss may justly be reckoned the general...

I imagine that thinking is the great desideratum of the present age; and the cause of whatever is done amiss may justly be reckoned the general...