Quotation of the Day…
by Don Boudreaux
on February 11, 2024
… is from John Stuart Mill’s 1828 speech titled “Speech on Perfectibility“:
I have observed that not the man who hopes when others despair, but the man who despairs when others hope is admired by a large clan of persons as a sage, and wisdom is supposed to consist not in seeing further than other people, but in not seeing so far.
