Walter Bagehot Quotes
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![Nations touch at their summits. - Walter Bagehot quote.](/img/q/82/36382A-nations-touch-at-their-summits-walter-bagehot.png)
Nations touch at their summits.
![Life is a school of probability. - Walter Bagehot quote.](/img/q/07/34707A-life-is-a-school-of-probability-walter-bagehot.png)
Life is a school of probability.
![Writers, like teeth, are divided into incisors and grinders. - Walter Bagehot quote.](/img/q/01/42401A-writers-like-teeth-are-divided-into-incisors-grinders-walter-bagehot.png)
Writers, like teeth, are divided into incisors and grinders.
![One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. - Walter Bagehot quote.](/img/q/55/33155A-one-of-the-greatest-pains-to-human-nature-is-pain-walter-bagehot.png)
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
![The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. - Walter Bagehot quote.](/img/q/22/19122A-the-greatest-pleasure-in-life-is-doing-what-people-say-walter-bagehot.png)
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
![It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations. - Walter Bagehot quote.](/img/q/53/40853A-it-is-good-to-be-without-vices-but-it-is-walter-bagehot.png)
It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.
![The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first and deadly afterwards. - Walter Bagehot quote.](/img/q/97/22597A-the-whole-history-of-civilization-is-strewn-with-creeds-institutions-walter-bagehot.png)
The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first and deadly afterwards.
![What we opprobriously call "stupidity," though not an enlivening quality in common society, is nature's favorite resource for preserving steadiness of conduct and consistency of opinion. - Walter Bagehot quote.](/img/q/17/40217A-what-we-opprobriously-call-stupidity-though-not-enlivening-quality-common-walter-bagehot.png)
What we opprobriously call "stupidity," though not an enlivening quality in common society, is nature's favorite resource for preserving steadiness of conduct and consistency of opinion.
![Nine tenths of modern science is in this respect the same: it is the produce of men whom their contemporaries thought dreamers - who were laughed at for caring for what did not concern them - who, as the proverb went, 'walked into a well from looking at the stars' - who were believed to be useless, if anyone could be such. - Walter Bagehot quote.](/img/q/28/21228A-nine-tenths-of-modern-science-is-this-respect-same-it-walter-bagehot.png)
Nine tenths of modern science is in this respect the same: it is the produce of men whom their contemporaries thought dreamers - who were laughed at for caring for what did not concern them - who, as the proverb went, 'walked into a well from looking at the stars' - who were believed to be useless, if anyone could be such.