41 Quotes by James Bryce

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

Why then seek to complete in a few decades what took the other nations of the world thousands of years? Why, in your hurry to subdue and utilize nature, squander her splendid gifts? You have opportunities such as mankind has never had before, and may never have again.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.