| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 65032 |
| QUOTATION: | I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have ... I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924), U.S. president. From a “Confidential Journal,” December 28, 1889. The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson, vol. 6, p. 462, ed. Arthur S. Link.
Wilson was a young professor at Wesleyan University when he made this very just appraisal of his intellectual powers. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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