Quotes with not-so-great

Quotes 10061 till 10080 of 12035.

  • Louis Ferdinand Céline To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them!
    Louis Ferdinand Céline
    French writer (1894 - 1961)
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  • Henry David Thoreau To inherit property is not to be born - it is to be still-born, rather.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Edmund Burke To innovate is not to reform.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Brendon Burchard To inspire a singularity of focus, a challenge must be important to you and it must be something you feel you should do now in this moment. If it's trivial or not time-bound, you won't engage. So in selecting your next challenge in life, choose one that is meaningful and will demand your complete concentration.
    Brendon Burchard
    American author (1977 - )
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  • Albert Camus To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Matthew Prior To John I owed great obligation; but John, unhappily, thought fit to publish it to all the nation: Sure John and I are more than quit.
    Matthew Prior
    British diplomat, poet (1664 - 1721)
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  • Seneca To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Buddha To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Eric Hoffer To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Quentin Crisp To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Joseph De Maistre To know how to wait. It is the great secret of success.
    Joseph De Maistre
    French diplomat and philosopher (1753 - 1821)
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  • Albert Camus To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Henry David Thoreau To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Confucius To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Lao-Tzu To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • Peter Carey To know you will be lonely is not the same as being lonely.
    Source: Oscar and Lucinda (2010) 261
    Peter Carey
    Australian writer (1943 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer To live alone is the fate of all great souls.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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