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
There is nothing nicer than nodding off while reading. Going fast asleep and then being woken by the crash of the book… — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble. — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
Nothing, indeed, could be more unlike the tone of the [Patristic] Fathers, than the cold, passionless, and prudential theology of the eighteenth… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky 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
The third class consists of men to whom nothing seems great but reason. If force interests them, it is not in its… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
He that revels in a well-chosen library, has innumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavour. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
There's an admirable belief about the virtues of meritocracy - that the best ideas prove the best results. It's a wrong and… — Mitch Kapor Copy Share Image
As you know, the Inquisition is an admirable and wholly Christian invention to make the pope and the monks more powerful and… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I like all the families in the U.K. But what I like about the idea of the royal family is... they seem… — will.i.am Copy Share Image
I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's no one more obnoxious and self-righteous than the self-made man. And no one more admirable. — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Hero-worship is the deepest root of all; the tap-root, from which in a great degree all the rest were nourished and grown… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities. — Socrates Copy Share Image
The man who is bigger than his job keeps cool. He does not lose his head, he refuses to become rattled, to… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
When I reflect that one man, armed only with his own physical and moral resources, was able to cause this land of… — Jean Giono Copy Share Image
Don't be embarrassed by your achievements. Being an overarchiever is nothing despicable. It is only admirable. Never lower your standards. — Martha Stewart Copy Share Image
A comic writer should of all others be the least excused for deviating from nature, since it may not be always so… — Henry Fielding 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
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
“On Perseverance – Persistence is admirable. Stubbornness is stupid. Just remember: the latter two even begin with the same three letters.” — Marsha Hinds Copy Share Image
You know, Qhuinn's an interesting character." Saxton reached out with an elegant hand and picked up his port. "He's one of my… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
Our greatest troubles spring from something that is as admirable as it is dangerous ... our impatience to better the lot of… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
