Like all Xhosa children, I acquired knowledge mainly through observation. We were meant to learn through imitation and emulation, not through questions.… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can't go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Ponder just let it happen. It's because their minds are so often involved with deep and problematic matters, he told himself, that… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
War is hell and all that, but it has a good deal to recommend it. It wipes out all the small nuisances… — Ian Hay Copy Share Image
Parades should be classed as a Nuisance and participants should be subject to a term in prison. They stop more work, inconvenience… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Babies are a nuisance, of course. But so does everything seem to be that is worthwhile - husbands and books and committees… — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
France has never gotten over the fact that it was once a great power and is now just a great nuisance. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Air pollution is not merely a nuisance and a threat to health. It is a reminder that our most celebrated technological achievements-the… — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
We have to be aggressive when those we stick up for have no voice. I don't consider it radical to say cruelty… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for that yet. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I gather that he nearly knocked you down, damaged your property, and generally made a nuisance of himself, and that you instantly… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
I always say that one's poetry is a solace to oneself and a nuisance to one's friends. — Hortense Calisher Copy Share Image
Go strip off your clothes that are a nuisance in this mellow clime. Get in and wrestle with the sea; wing your… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco. — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
Every day we'd trudge up the hill - it was a three-quarter-mile walk up this steep hill to the Leach Pottery, and… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
A man is a fabulous nuisance in space right now. He's not worth all the cost of putting him up there and… — James Van Allen Copy Share Image
It is difficult to understand why statisticians commonly limit their inquiries to Averages, and do not revel in more comprehensive views. Their… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
At any given time, ninety-nine-point-nine-five per cent of the human race are a confounded nuisance — Tom Holt Copy Share Image
Systems, scientific or philosophic, come and go. Each method of limited understanding is at length exhausted. In its prime each system is… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Though tax records are generally looked upon as a nuisance, the day may come when historians will realize that tax records tell… — Charles Adams Copy Share Image
There is an element of the busybody in our conception of virtue: unless a man makes himself a nuisance to a great… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Educating people beyond their intellectual means is a disservice to humanity. A clueless person who knows little is a nuisance; a clueless… — George Jonas Copy Share Image
It is difficult to estimate the misery inflicted upon thousands of persons, and the absolute pecuniary penalty imposed upon multitudes of intellectual… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
