We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
If our legislature does not heartily push our University [of Virginia] we must send our children for education to Kentucky [Transylvania College]… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Nothing has afforded me so convincing a proof of the unity of the Deity as these purely mental conceptions of numerical and… — Mary Somerville Copy Share Image
The colleges of Edinburgh and Geneva as seminaries of science, are considered as the two eyes of Europe. While Great Britain and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
To place any dependence upon Militia, is, assuredly, resting upon a broken staff ... If I was called upon to declare upon… — George Washington Copy Share Image
A computer is like a violin. You can imagine a novice trying first a phonograph and then a violin. The latter, he… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
Expulsion and genocide, though both are international offenses, must remain distinct; the former is an offense against fellow-nations, whereas the latter is… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Of course, political leaders are much more ambitious than gangsters. The latter are content to take your money, whereas the former, besides… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
A learned historian declared to me of a contemporary, that the latter had appropriated his researches; he might, indeed, and he had… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
Human life very much resembles a game of chess: for, as in the latter, while a gamester is too attentive to secure… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
If you read back in the Bible, the letter of the apostle Paul to the church of Thessalonia, he said that in… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
Most men have a sunny spot to which they look back in their existence, as most have an impossible future, to attain… — George Whyte-Melville Copy Share Image
Stand tall and be strong in defense of those great virtues which have been the backbone of our social progress. When you… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
We should note that this latter type of shift was successfully amplified to a considerable extent by Russian physicists using the intense… — Alfred Kastler Copy Share Image
The king shall singly deliberate over secret matters; for ministers have their own ministers, and these latter some of their own; this… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
But the saints are never the kind of killjoy spinster aunts who go in for faultfinding and lack all sense of humor.… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
Remember, everything you are building today will be killed or iterated. The former is more likely than the latter. Great products are… — Justin Kan Copy Share Image
Whom God legally saves, He experimentally saves; whom He justifies, them He also sanctifies. Where the righteousness of Christ is imputed to… — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
A wound in the friendship of young persons, as in the bark of young trees, may be so grown over as to… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
I hope I have a few years left in my 'last days,' but whether I do or do not, I want it… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
The act of greatest subversion ... is the one of indifference. A man, or a group, finds it unbearable that someone can… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
Under present conditions, people are preoccupied with consumer goods not because they are brainwashed but because buying is the one pleasurable activity… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
God has told us Latter-day Saints that we shall be condemned if we do not enter into that principle of polygamy; and… — Orson Pratt Copy Share Image
