Held/people

Famous quotes containing the words held and/or people:

“Some think to avoid the influence of metaphysical errors, by paying no attention to metaphysics; but experience shows that these men beyond all others are held in an iron vice of metaphysical theory, because by theories that they have never called in question.”
—Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914)

“Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)