The knowledge of numbers is one of the chief distinctions between us and the brutes. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Man's chief moral deficiency appears to be not his indiscretions but his reticence. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Next to the semi-colon, quotation marks seem to be the chief butts of reformatory ardor. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The chief aim of wisdom is to enable one to bear with the stupidity of the ignorant. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I do not believe that the Great Spirit Chief gave one kind of men the right to tell another kind of men… — Chief Joseph Copy Share Image
The habit of giving up when the present task is half finished and try something else is one of the chief causes… — Christian D. Larson Copy Share Image
Love is one of the chief characteristics of Deity, and ought to be manifested by those who aspire to be the sons… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
The laboratory routine, which involves a great deal of measurement, filing, and tabulation, is either my lifeline or my chief handicap, I… — Charles Francis Richter Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a fireman, a cop, an Indian chief, a doctor, a lawyer. I always wanted to be all… — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
I wonder if there's just a sense that we have nothing to learn from any Supreme Court justice, including the great Chief… — Dahlia Lithwick Copy Share Image
I have it on good authority-from the roads department chief, Mr. Arpin-that it will not snow after the fifteenth of March. — Jean Drapeau Copy Share Image
The government and its chiefs do not have the powers of the mythical Santa Claus. They cannot spend except by taking out… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Those who have wrought great changes in the world never succeeded by gaining over chiefs; but always by exciting the multitude. The… — Martin Van Buren Copy Share Image
For America, the chief geopolitical prize is Eurasia... Now a non-Eurasian power is preeminent in Eurasia - and America's global primacy is… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Homeland Security Chief Tom Ridge raised security alert to a code red. Apparently Howard Dean has escaped. Did you see Dean's crazed… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
The chief point we must remember is that the great and rapid advance of the physical sciences took place in fields where… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Words alone are inadequate to express spiritual realities. This book expresses the Red Indian spirit because it combines the best photographs ever… — Thomas Yellowtail Copy Share Image
A student may easily exhaust his life in comparing divines and moralists without any practical regard to morals and religion; he may… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The issue of gay marriage has reached the Supreme Court and observers are analyzing every detail to predict how each justice will… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
Combining valuable insights from his experience in China, his time as the World Bank's chief economist, and the 2008 financial crisis, Justin… — Kemal Dervis Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the chief thing about a woman - who is much of a woman - is that in… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Some men of a secluded and studious life, have sent forth from their closet or their cloister, rays of intellectual light that… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
As commander in chief, I will not speak to Vladimir Putin until we've set up that no-fly zone; until we've gathered our… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
Chief among the forces affecting political folly is lust for power, named by Tacitus as "the most flagrant of all the passions."… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Among our neighbors of Central and Southern America, we see the Caucasian mingled with the Indian and the African. They have the… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Is it that they think it a duty to be continually talking,' pursued she: 'and so never pause to think, but fill… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
In the last four days I have got the spectrum given by Tantalum, Chromium, Manganese, Iron, Nickel, Cobalt, and Copper and part… — Henry Moseley Copy Share Image
You have to fight for your life. That's the chief condition on which you hold it. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them-especially not from yourself. — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
My chief consolation in this year of living dyingly has been the presence of friends, — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Let those be thy choicest companions who have made Christ their chief companion. — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
All wars would end immediately if the various chiefs of state dropped a little LSD. — David Crosby Copy Share Image
Whatever else art is good for, its chief effectiveness lies in propagating more art. — Leo Steinberg Copy Share Image
