Quotes with half-believes

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  • Francis Bacon A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • George Jean Nathan An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.
    George Jean Nathan
    American criticus (1882 - 1958)
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    +6
  • Benjamin Disraeli A consistent man believes in destiny, a capricious man in chance.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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    +2
  • Emily Dickinson Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Henry Miller Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Malcolm Forbes Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.
    Malcolm Forbes
    American businessman and publisher (Forbes Magazine) (1919 - 1990)
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  • William James Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources. Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far within his limits. He possesses power of various sorts which he habitually fails to use.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf ;is better than a whole loaf.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Jean de la Fontaine Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
    Jean de la Fontaine
    French writer (1621 - 1695)
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  • George Eliot In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • George Orwell It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Bernhard von Bulow Since the German people, with unparalleled heroism, but also at the cost of fearful sacrifices, has waged war against half the world, it is our right and our duty to obtain safety and independence for ourselves at sea.
    Bernhard von Bulow
    German diplomat and politician (1849 - 1929)
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  • Albert Claude Small bodies, about half a micron in diameter, and later referred to under the name of 'mitochondria' were detected under the light microscope as early as 1894.
    Albert Claude
    Belgian-American cell biologist and doctor (1899 - 1983)
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  • George Gallup The common people of America display a quality of good common sense which is heartening to anyone who believes in the democratic process.
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  • George Eliot The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistorical acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Omar Khayyam The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.
    Omar Khayyam
    Persian astronoom, poet (1048 - 1131)
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  • Robert Burns Their sighing , canting , grace-proud faces, their three-mile prayers, and half-mile graces.
    Robert Burns
    Scottish Poet (1759 - 1796)
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  • Jean Baudrillard We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in the social, our historic passions have withdrawn into the glow of an artificial coziness, and our half-closed eyes now seek little other than the peaceful parade of television pictures.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Aristotle Well begun is half done.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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