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S. I. Hayakawa

politician, anthropologist, linguist, university teacher, psychologist

1906 – 1992

Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa was a Canadian-born American academic and politician of Japanese ancestry. A professor of English, he served as president of San Francisco State University and then as U.S. Senator from California from 1977 to 1983.

All Quotes by S. I. Hayakawa

“It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die.”

— S. I. Hayakawa

“It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die.”

— S. I. Hayakawa

“Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.”

— S. I. Hayakawa