"For hope is but the dream of those that wake."

Matthew Prior Politics See all quotes by Matthew Prior →

React to this quote

More by Matthew Prior

See all

“Odds life! must one swear to the truth of a song?”

“Forbear to mention what thou canst not praise.”

“The end must justify the means.”

“All jargon of the schools.”

“The Matthew Prior Project, Prior's complete correspondence”

Resonant Thoughts

"Those who are wise won't be busy, and those who are too busy can't be wise."

— Lin Yutang

Literature1895–1976

#wisdom

"Our debt to Hayek is very substantial. He helped to establish a freedom-based approach of evaluation through which economic systems can be judged . He pointed to the importance of identifying those se…"

— Amartya Sen

Economics1933

#freedom

"Quoted raw, a note in a bottle, this passage conveys, as any similar one similarly presented would do, a fair sense of how much goes into ethnographic description of even the most elemental sort — how…"

— Clifford Geertz

Philosophy1926–2006

#wisdom