In early times every sort of advantage tends to become a military advantage; such is the best way, then, to keep it… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Finally, it is important to make it clear that imagination is not an exercise for those detached from reality, those who live… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
The disappearance of your person is not your disappearance, remember; on the contrary, it is your appearance. As your person disappears, your… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Aspiring black leaders are often asked to transcend race, even though no one ever asked, say, Hillary Clinton to transcend gender. This… — Gwen Ifill Copy Share Image
Something peculiar has happened. As I write, none of the Republican candidates for Senate has become a public embarrassment. On the contrary:… — Matthew Continetti Copy Share Image
The most successful hyperpowers are the ones where there was actual intermixing. Tang dynasty China was China's golden age, and contrary to… — Amy Chua Copy Share Image
Analysis of rebellion leads at least to the suspicion that, contrary to the postulates of contemporary thought, a human nature does exist,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
During the fifteen or twenty years in which I tried - it was not always easy with publishers, newspapers, etc. - to… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
I have never been able to carry out any work coolly. On the contrary it is done, so to speak, with my… — Kathe Kollwitz Copy Share Image
The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Do we honestly believe that hopeless kids growing up under the harsh new rules will turn out to be chaste, studious, responsible… — Richard Stolley Copy Share Image
I am not fully informed of the practices at Harvard, but there is one from which we shall certainly vary, although it… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Guilt, on the contrary, like a base thief, suspects every eye that beholds him to be privy to his transgressions, and every… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Who mentioned the Church? On the contrary, I have great respect for religion. My objection is to those who are against so… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
Contrary to popular wisdom, knowledge is not power-it's potential power. Knowledge is not mastery. Execution is mastery. Execution will trump knowledge every… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
Frequent not the company of immodest persons, especially if they be also impudent, as is generally the case; ...these corrupted souls and… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
Superficial knowledge ... is hurtful to those who possess true genius; for it necessarily draws them away from their main object, wastes… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Make a point never go clear, it is great odds that a man whose habits and the bent of whose mind lie… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets. — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
Similarly, knowledge of the future was incompatible with free will. What made it possible for me to exercise freedom of choice also… — Ted Chiang Copy Share Image
But contrary to what some people seem to think, I was never a bully. I was just a hard man. — Roger Daltrey Copy Share Image
If misery spelled revolt, we should have had nothing but revolt from the beginning of time. On the contrary, it is quite… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
If you believe that man is inherently flawed-what religious people call 'original sin'-it follows that man, if left to his own devices,… — Rod Dreher Copy Share Image
No tribal rite has yet been recorded which attempts to keep winter from descending; on the contrary: the rites all prepare the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I now add, farther, that the apostles argument is so far from proving it to be the duty of people to obey,… — Jonathan Mayhew Copy Share Image
