Related Quotes
All quotes about:
wisdom
No, I never - no one ever - I never learned anything when I was a kid. Honestly, my parents had nothing to tell me - like, no wisdom, nothing. Bruce Eric Kaplan
wisdom
To know that you know, and to know that you don't know - that is the real wisdom. Confucius
wisdom intelligence sage
The true sage is not he who sees, but he who, seeing the furthest, has the deepest love for mankind. Maurice Maeterlinck
wisdom flames her-beauty
Wisdom requires no form; her beauty must vary, as varies the beauty of flame. She is no motionless goddess, for ever couched on her throne.
wisdom children names
The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name. Theodore Roosevelt
wisdom filth goodness
Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile; Filths savour but themselves. William Shakespeare
wisdom character men
To wilful men, the injuries that they themselves procure must be their schoolmasters.
wisdom snakes should
Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous. Chanakya
wisdom wise
He is wise that is wise to himself. Euripides
literature causes reason
An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason. C. S. Lewis
literature stand
Literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself. Charles Dickens
literature modern society
Literature and Society in the First Modern Period, 321 B.C. - A.D. 235,
literature behemoth bigs
I rarely ever put my head above the rampart and see where this big lumbering behemoth called 'global literature' is going. David Mitchell
literature computer internet
The Internet: transforming society and shaping the future through chat. Dave Barry
literature stones teeth
We idolized the Beatles, except for those of us who idolized the Rolling Stones, who in those days still had many of their original teeth.
literature genes type
A gene can be either dominant or recessive, depending on which type of gene it is.
literature enough bigs
If you have a big enough dictionary, just about everything is a word.
literature language speak
Mathematics to me is like a language I don’t speak though I admire its literature in translation. David Quammen
contempt word writer wrote
Nabokov, who I loved more than any other writer when I was young, had such contempt for dialogue. When I was younger, I never wrote a word of dialogue because of him. I thought it was a childish part of a novel. Zadie Smith
contempt control feeling hatred neither quite within
Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control Arthur Schopenhauer
contempt deal gone longer obviously penalty phase serious strike work
If they haven't gone back to work by Thursday, then we're going to have a very significant penalty phase to deal with. The longer the strike goes, obviously the more serious the contempt is.
contempt hold naturally
I can't hold too much contempt for him, because naturally he would be disappointed. Danny Green
contempt heard held people president
Unfortunately I think that the young people must feel they are held in contempt by the president and not heard by him.
contempt despised
Contempt is not a thing to be despised. Edmund Burke
contempt department job learned running saw students worst younger
My worst boss was a departmental chair who never learned to appreciate new developments in the field. He had contempt for students and younger researchers, and he saw the job of running the department as a nuisance. Steven Pinker
contempt joyce letters people throughout virginia writers
I think throughout the 20th century, for some reason, serious writers increasingly had contempt for the average reader. You can really see this in the letters of such people as Joyce and Virginia Woolf. Michel Faber
contempt father grew opinions speech
I grew up to have my father's looks- my father's speech patterns-my father's posture- my father's opinions and my mother's contempt for my father Jules Feiffer