Quotes with well-read

Quotes 1641 till 1660 of 1813.

  • Thomas Carlyle What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Bill Gates What's amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It's so far away in time that they can't appreciate what it means for their whole life.
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Malcolm Forbes What's an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows, he doesn't know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesn't admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesn't really know how much.
    Malcolm Forbes
    American businessman and publisher (Forbes Magazine) (1919 - 1990)
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  • Jeanette Winterson What's invisible to us is also crucial for our own well-being.
    Jeanette Winterson
    English writer (1959 - )
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  • Julia Roberts What's nice about my dating life is that I don't have to leave my house. All I have to do is read the paper: I'm marrying Richard Gere, dating Daniel Day-Lewis, parading around with John F. Kennedy, Jr., and even Robert De Niro was in there for a day.
    Julia Roberts
    American actress (1967 - )
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  • Bobby Rahal What's really hit me over the years is that you go to every race and see all the well-wishers, and you really feel like you are connected with people after all these years.
    Bobby Rahal
    American auto racing driver (1953 - )
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  • Doris Lessing What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.
    Doris Lessing
    British novelist (1919 - 2013)
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  • Seneca Whatever is well said by another, is mine.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Louis XIV Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
    Louis XIV
    French king, also called Sun King (1638 - 1715)
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  • Martin Luther King Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Benjamin Haydon When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • Casey Affleck When a performance isn't working, it's usually because the actor is trying to do something and they're not able to express their idea very well. It's a muddled expression.
    Casey Affleck
    American actor and director (1975 - )
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  • Anatole France When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Robert A. Heinlein When any government, or church for that matter, undertakes to say to it's subjects, this you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motive.
    Robert A. Heinlein
    American science fiction writer (1907 - 1988)
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  • Martin Luther When I am angry I can pray well and preach well.
    Martin Luther
    German preacher (1483 - 1546)
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  • Hillaire Belloc When I am dead, I hope it is said, 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read'.
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  • Hilaire Belloc When I am dead, I hope it may be said: ''His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.''
    Hilaire Belloc
    British Author (1870 - 1953)
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  • Gloria Swanson When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That's the story of my private life.
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  • Blair Redford When I first meet a girl, I have some questions I go through if I'm interested in her. Like, if she's a good-looking girl, and I figure out right away that she doesn't read, that's a dealbreaker for me.
    Blair Redford
     
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