Quotes with well-read

Quotes 1401 till 1420 of 1813.

  • Ban Ki-moon To measure the success of our societies, we should examine how well those with different abilities, including persons with autism, are integrated as full and valued members.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Willa Cather To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.
    Willa Cather
    American author (1873 - 1947)
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  • Aleister Crowley To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
    Aleister Crowley
    British occultist, writer, and mountaineer (1875 - 1947)
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  • Philip Roth To read a novel requires a certain kind of concentration, focus, devotion to the reading.
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • André Gide To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Henry James To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Carl Sagan To read is to voyage through time.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Charles Kuralt To read the papers and to listen to the news... one would think the country is in terrible trouble. You do not get that impression when you travel the back roads and the small towns do care about their country and wish it well.
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  • Mao Tse-Tung To read too many books is harmful.
    Mao Tse-Tung
    Chinese politician (1893 - 1976)
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  • Edmund Burke To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Tryon Edwards To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.
    Tryon Edwards
    American theologian (1809 - 1894)
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  • Phillips Brooks To say, ''well done'' to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge.
    Phillips Brooks
    American Minister, Poet (1835 - 1893)
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  • Carl Victor De Bonstetten To speak well supposes a habit of attention which shows itself in the thought; by language we learn to think, and above all to develop thought.
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • John Ruskin To watch the corn grow, or the blossoms set; to draw hard breath over the plough or spade; to read, to think, to love, to pray, are the things that make men happy.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Aristotle To write well, express yourself like common people, but think like a wise man. Or, think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Gore Vidal Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Charles Dickens Tongue: well that's a very good thing when it ain't a woman's.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Carlton Cuse Tragedy is a great storytelling form. It worked extremely well for Shakespeare. It worked extremely well for Jim Cameron with 'Titanic.'
    Carlton Cuse
    American screenwriter, producer, and director (1959 - )
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