Resist the Googling trigger fingers and use your brain instead. All the quotes below reveal an interesting personality – and are attributed to one real person. Can you put your secret service psychologist hat on – and guess who said it?
Don’t let Sharon throw you off.
Clues: he is said to be an ENTP and very intelligent.
His quotations:
- The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
- Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
- Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!
- He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
- The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
- All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
- Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation… even so does inaction sap the vigour of the mind.
- Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.
- Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.
- Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.
- Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
- Time abides long enough for those who make use of it.
- It is better to imitate ancient than modern work.
- The smallest feline is a masterpiece.
Do comment if you wish – and especially if you don’t know the answer! I am very curious to see who you come up with 🙂
Wishing you a wonderful weekend.
A millennial's musings 
I recognised a couple of the quotes…but it was interesting tryig to work him out until that point 🙂
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Ah, I tried to take out the really famous ones…
We started playing this game at home yesterday – and it was so much fun, I had to share.
I will make this a feature every Saturday!
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I read further than Google as a rule, so I’ve come across a fair bit on this person.
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I am not sure but I feel it may be Confucius, I am more interested in reading the psychology behind quotes rather than remembering names of persons ,each quote mentioned here tells a whole story in itself ,lots of psychological aspects .
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It’s not him, but it’s a good guess (Confucius’s an INTP and a bit more… Eastern (transience, hard principles) if that makes sense).
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Shakespeare.
🙂
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Or not.
😀
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Apparently Shakespeare was an INFP 🙂
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I assume you knew someone would go straight to Google. That’s me. All of those fit with what I know of the person.
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They’re good aren’t they? (please don’t say who it is) 🙂
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I have no idea! J. Edgar Hoover?
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Oh, what an interesting guess! Had to look up who that was. Time for a Google (I don’t think I can privately message here)
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I guessed Thoreau, but was wrong. Then I looked it up…couldn’t resist. Nice quotes.
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I think that’s a great guess! He’s a brother in spirit for this guy. Thanks for the comment, Rita 😛
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After I guessed Thoreau, I realized he would likely be more of an ISTJ…oh well…
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Ah, I am a MB ENTJ but the T and J are both only by the dint of a single question. In fact the last two categories were determined by the difference of one question. Otherwise it could be me!
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I’ll go for Ganhi or Socrates (via Plato). If one had mentioned a spinning wheel then I would leam more to Gandhi. The grammer is too proper for Yoda. 🐸 -Oscar
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Thanks for the guess. Socrates is a really good guess. Time for a Google 🙂
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One’s guess probably reveals one’s reading list and background. ✍🏽
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For sure!
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Wouldn’t be Gandhi…He is an INFJ. And don’t remember reading these quotes either. But Socrates is a possibility. Is it Socrates? I know that he’s considered as an entp.
The quotes are quite unfamiliar to me.
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Very close. Let’s say he was a bit more distractible than Socrates…
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I’ll keep guessing then…I’ll be back if I find a promising answer.😄
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And Plato is said to have been an infj too..
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Was it David Beckham?
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If it isn’t Beckham, then my reserve position might be Arthur Schopenhauer, but I don’t think he liked cats — so that’s wrong. I’ll stick with Beckham.
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Wow, how interesting!
I would never have guessed either.
Beckham I think is pensive and could fit the bill, but is he ever saying anything profound? I would have thought he is a man of few words kind of guy.
As for A.S., i can see where you’re coming from, though I think A.S. was an angry little man who didn’t really stop to smell the roses.
Time for a Google for you – so that we don’t spoil the fun by giving away the answer 🙂 This chap is from a few centuries before either of your guesses.
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Well, I wasn’t entirely serious about David Beckham, Martina . . .
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Ah, look, you never know 🙂 🙂
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To turn the late Mohammed Ali’s witty and withering faux-compliment back on myself, and in paraphrasing the same: “I’m not as dumb as I look”. 😉
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Haha, look, it’s a legitimate guess 🤓
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