Of what use is it to please the herd? They are simply coarse animals - for all that is admirable in man… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
My principal motive is the belief that we can still make admirable sense of our lives even if we cease to have...… — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution of omnipotence to reason is as… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
McDonald's is almost 50 years old. For 47 years we had a pretty consistent track record of being able to deliver admirable sales. — Jim Cantalupo Copy Share Image
It is this admirable and immortal instinct for beauty which causes us to regard the earth and its spectacles as a glimpse,… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had an admirable… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Mozart's music is particularly difficult to perform. His admirable clarity exacts absolute cleanness: the slightest mistake in it stands out like black… — Gabriel Faure Copy Share Image
Still, even the most admirable of atheists is nothing more than a moral parasite, living his life based on borrowed ethics. This… — Theodore Beale Copy Share Image
Nature never makes excellent things, for mean or no uses: and it is hardly to be conceived, that our infinitely wise Creator,… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Charles Darwin made arguably the greatest discovery any human has ever made. He was a man of great persistence. He wasn't probably… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Society is purely and solely a continual series of exchanges... And the greatest eulogy we can give it, for exchange is an… — Antoine Destutt de Tracy Copy Share Image
Faced with a new mutation in an organism, or a fundamental change in its living conditions, the biologist is frequently in no… — George Wald Copy Share Image
[There are m]oral precepts that we consider really important, such as 'don't pick your nose' or 'don't eat peas with a knife'.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
One admirable trait in women is their lack of illusions about themselves. They never reason about their most blameworthy actions; their feelings… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
To divide a cube into two other cubes, a fourth power, or in general any power whatever into two powers of the… — Pierre de Fermat Copy Share Image
I think it's an amazing quality to be able to roll with the punches and not be totally ruined as a person… — Anna Paquin Copy Share Image
Courage is perhaps our most admirable trait. The man, or woman, who possesses it is able to plunge ahead, despite dangers, despite… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
Don't assume that your personal moral compass, however admirable it may be, will always give you the right answer to complicated questions… — Joseph Badaracco Copy Share Image
Allow me to offer my congratulations on the truly admirable skill you have shown in keeping clear of the mark. Not to… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
Hebrews . This book is much superior to most of the writings attributed to St. Paul, though passages in the other books… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
When I was 12, all I wanted was to be good at school, and to do something admirable, something you can't take… — Diane Lane Copy Share Image
Saints are what they are not because their sanctity makes them admirable to others, but because the gift of sainthood makes it… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization. ... The first thing a woman does when she gets… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses. Admirable gardens of absurd beliefs, forebodings, obsessions and frenzies.… — Louis Aragon Copy Share Image
I believe that the visit of the Queen to the United States is an admirable occasion to produce an historical, truthful, sincere,… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Anwar Sadat once said that if you see a good person with admirable qualities, try to adapt those qualities to yourself, and… — Harry Hamlin Copy Share Image
A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
An activist is one who is actively involved in creating community, whether that is locally in their neighborhood or internationally. It is… — Jasmine Guy Copy Share Image
Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Jill Eisenstadt is a writer of many admirable gifts. Foremost among them are a sharp eye for people, a playful love of… — Stephen McCauley Copy Share Image
The United States is my subject, but as Hawthorne once wrote, "the United States are suited for many admirable purposes, but not… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Scientists are convinced that they, as scientists, possess a number of very admirable human qualities, such as accuracy, observation, reasoning power, intellectual… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
As an exercise of the reasoning faculties, pure mathematics is an admirable exercise, because it consists of reasoning alone and does not… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
I see now more clearly than ever before that even our greatest troubles spring from something that is [as] admirable and sound… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
In America, it's quite admirable if someone's done well or been successful at whatever it is. Whereas in Britain, they're not. They… — Aphex Twin Copy Share Image
It is an admirable skill to able to sweeten a refusal with civil words which atone for the favor which we are… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
Tis an admirable thing to see how some people will labour to find out terms that may obscure a plain sense, like… — Dorothy Osborne Copy Share Image
Dialect tempered with slang is an admirable medium of communication between persons who have nothing to say and persons who would not… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
There are different kinds of actors, and movie actors tend to be exceedingly precise and mechanical in a way that's really admirable… — Ana Gasteyer Copy Share Image
![“[There are m]oral precepts that we consider really important, such as 'don't pick your nose' or 'don't eat peas with a knife'. There may, for ought I know, be admirable reasons for eating peas with a knife, but . . . early persuasion has made me completely incapable of appreciating them.” quote by Bertrand Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a02/bertrand-russell-69_admirable_there-are-m-oral-precepts-that-we-consid_2626535.jpg)
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