The actual state of our knowledge is always provisional and... there must be, beyond what is actually known, immense new regions to… — Louis de Broglie Copy Share Image
USAGE, n. The First Person of the literary Trinity, the Second and Third being Custom and Conventionality. Imbued with a decent reverence… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The conventionality of the English is something I find unattractive - the whole lack of joy in the physical. — Denholm Elliott Copy Share Image
Call on literary convention, and it will gladly tell your story for you. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
As you become older in life...you will come to recognize that you are either just a convenience or a need in other… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
When someone between twenty and forty says, apropos of a work of art, 'I know what I like,' he is really saying… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No convention gets to be a convention at all except by grace of a lot of clever and powerful people first inventing… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
Life, my dear Watson, is infinitely stranger than fiction; stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We could not… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing I… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
'Mediocre' tends to mean 'undistinguished', while snobs enjoy their distinguishing hallmarks of style - how they wear clothes, use words, where they… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
“We are not supposed to all be the same, feel the same, think the same, and believe the same. The key to… — Anthon St. Maarten Copy Share Image
What worse illness can there be than acute conventionality. You should pray every night that you don't wake up with it. — George Weinberg Copy Share Image
The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
