Quotes with thinking--not

Quotes 4501 till 4520 of 10591.

  • Sir Roger L'Estrange It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable.''
    Sir Roger L'Estrange
    English journalist (1616 - 1702)
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  • William Ellery Channing It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.
    William Ellery Channing
    American Unitarian minister (1780 - 1842)
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  • Quentin Crisp It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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  • Frederick W. Robertson It is not the situation that makes the man, but the man who makes the situation.
    Frederick W. Robertson
    English divine (1816 - 1853)
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  • Elizabeth Stuart Phelps It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing the little things, the common duties, a little better and better.
    Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
    American author, feminist and intellectual (1844 - 1911)
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  • Charles Darwin It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
    Charles Darwin
    English scientist and biologist (1809 - 1882)
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  • Italo Calvino It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.
    Italo Calvino
    Italian writer (1923 - 1985)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne It is not the want, but rather abundance that creates avarice.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.
    Address at Princeton University, "The Educated Citizen" (22 March 1954).
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Julius Caesar It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.
    Julius Caesar
    Roman emperor (101 - 44)
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  • Joseph A. Schumpeter It is not true that democracy will always safeguard freedom of conscience better than autocracy. Witness the most famous of all trials. Pilate was, from the standpoint of the Jews, certainly the representative of autocracy. Yet he tried to protect freedom. And he yielded to a democracy.
    Joseph A. Schumpeter
    Austrian-American economist (1883 - 1950)
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  • George Bernard Shaw It is not true that men can be divided into absolutely honest persons and absolutely dishonest ones. Our honesty varies with the strain put on it.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Samuel Johnson It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • William Somerset Maugham It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Bill Bryson It is not true that the English invented cricket as a way of making all other human endeavours look interesting and lively; that was merely an unintended side effect. I don't wish to denigrate a sport that is enjoyed by millions, some of them awake and facing the right way, but it is an odd game.
    In a Sunburned Country (US) / Down Under (UK) (2000)
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • S. I. Hayakawa It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
    S. I. Hayakawa
    Canada-American Senator (1902 - 1992)
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  • Adolf Hitler It is not truth that matters, but victory.
    Adolf Hitler
    German politician (1889 - 1945)
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  • Barbara von Krüdener It is not virtuous women who are so ready to report suspicion of their sisters.
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  • Henry Ward Beecher It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon It is not well to make great changes in old age.
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    English Baptist preacher (1834 - 1892)
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