WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Fri, 10 Jul 2026 22:26:27 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg misperception – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Nelson, Horatio -- Letter to Andrew Hamond (1797) https://wist.info/nelson-horatio/43533/ https://wist.info/nelson-horatio/43533/#respond Mon, 05 Oct 2020 17:47:18 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=43533 Success covers a multitude of blunders, and the want of it hides the greatest gallantry and good conduct.


Horatio Nelson (1758-1805) British admiral
Letter to Andrew Hamond (1797)
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Often misattributed to George Bernard Shaw. ]]> https://wist.info/nelson-horatio/43533/feed/ 0 43533 Voltaire -- Philosophical Dictionary, “Madness” (1764) https://wist.info/voltaire/38222/ https://wist.info/voltaire/38222/#respond Wed, 08 Nov 2017 02:04:51 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=38222 What is madness? To have erroneous perceptions and to reason correctly from them.


Voltaire (1694-1778) French writer [pseud. of Francois-Marie Arouet]
Philosophical Dictionary, “Madness” (1764)
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