3 Quotes & Sayings By John Bloomfield Jervis

John Jervis is a veteran journalist, writer and editor from the Washington Post. He has been a staff writer for Newsweek, editor of the Washington Post's Style section, and a columnist for The Post. His bestselling books include The Last Season: A Year in the Life of a Minor-League Baseball Team and The Friends of Abe: A Novel of Abraham Lincoln. John lives in Arlington, Virginia with his wife, Tedra Jervis.

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No engineer can go upon a new work and not find something peculiar, that will demand his careful reflection, and the deliberate consideration of any advice that he may receive; and nothing so fully reveals his incapacity as a pretentious assumption of knowledge, claiming to understand everything. John Bloomfield Jervis
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The operating management, providing as it does for the care of near thirty thousand miles of railway, is far more important than that for construction in which there is comparatively little doing. John Bloomfield Jervis