Let us confess a truth, humiliating to human pride; - a very small part only of the opinions of the coolest philosopher… — Anna Letitia Barbauld Copy Share Image
I actually prefer it if I don't know what I'm supposed to do. If you've got an equal temperament piano keyboard, then… — Aphex Twin Copy Share Image
Warm weather fosters growth: cold weather destroys it. Thus a man with an unsympathetic temperament has a scant joy: but a man… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
By temperament I am not unduly excitable and certainly not trigger-happy. I think twice before I shoot and very often do not… — Bill Brandt Copy Share Image
That very concentration of vision and intensity of purpose which is the characteristic of the artistic temperament is in itself a mode… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Dying visions of angels and Christ and God and heaven are confined to credibly good men. Why do not bad men have… — Enoch Fitch Burr Copy Share Image
From the beginning, about the rude altar of the god, to the days of Goethe, of Leopardi, and of Victor Hugo, the… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
“Meekness is the quality of those who are "Godfearing, righteous, humble, teachable, and patient under suffering." Those who possess this attribute are… — Ulisses Soares Copy Share Image
Although I have been prevented by outward circumstances from observing a strictly vegetarian diet, I have long been an adherent to the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I am always suspicious of those who impose 'rules' on child rearing. Every child is different in terms of temperament and learning,… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
To contest an author's right to create a poetic or realistic work is to want to force him to change his temperament,… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a perfectly happy or perfectly unhappy man in the world. One has more happiness in his… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
While all bodies are composed of the four elements, that is, of heat, moisture, the earthy, and air, yet there are mixtures… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
Young people, don't get the idea that you have an artistic temperament which must be humored. Don't believe you cannot do good… — Howard Pyle Copy Share Image
I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. We… — Rahul Dravid Copy Share Image
The duty of happiness becomes clearer when we see how it affects others. It is the merry heart that makes the cheerful… — Hugh Black Copy Share Image
If we love our fellow humans, we cannot limit our insight and our love only to others as individuals...We have to be… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“When you know how to handle people, handle people well, for you may need people one day! Don’t just shun them; don’t… — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
The national security issues are very important for two reasons. First, because everybody knows that we want to be safe. But, secondly,… — Tim Kaine Copy Share Image
I have tried to show as clearly as possible that the very characteristics and weaknesses of temperament with which we were born...can… — Hannah Hurnard Copy Share Image
When I say that George Eliot has long been my hero, I mean to include those aspects of her thought and temperament… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
No one should feel at all offended or threatened by the obvious fact that we are not all born entirely blank, or… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I have always loved music; whoso has skill in this art, is of a good temperament, fitted for all things. We must… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
If the detective should suffer overmuch from the artistic temperament, and his fellow lodger should dwell overlong upon the fairness of a… — Loren D. Estleman Copy Share Image
We underestimate the distance between ourselves and others. Not just inferential distance, but distances of temperament and ability, distances of situation and… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I behaved a bit strangely sometimes - lost my temper, did silly things - but little by little,… — Alain Ducasse Copy Share Image
To certain temperaments, especially when previously agitated by any deep feeling, there is perhaps nothing more exasperating, andwhich sooner explodes all self-command,… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
At the root of the shy temperament is a deep fear of social judgment, one so severe it can sometimes be crippling.… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
Let's keep in mind that Donald Trump didn't win because of himself. He won in spite of himself. A quarter of his… — Matthew Dowd Copy Share Image
I'm going to keep talking about what I would do as president, the experience that I bring, the temperament and judgment that… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
America to me is so varied and exciting. I always feel nostalgia for the place I'm not in, and then I get… — Ian Frazier Copy Share Image
Pessimist by policy, optimist by temperament- it is possible to be both. How? By never taking an unnecessary chance and by minimizing… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge.… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
My temperament is not the adventuresome sort that enjoys starting new projects every six months. I love ensemble, nine-to-five stability. There's a… — Ted Danson Copy Share Image
If it is correct to say that there will always be rightist temperaments and leftist temperaments, it is nevertheless also correct to… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
No enunciation of the Truth will ever be complete, no method of training will ever be suitable for all temperaments, no one… — Dion Fortune Copy Share Image
There's a great deal of difference between temperament and temper. Temperament is something you welcome creatively, for it is based on sensitivity,… — Lucille Ball Copy Share Image
The Louvre is the book in which we learn to read. We must not, however, be satisfied with retaining the beautiful formulas… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
“When you know how to handle people, handle people well, for you may need people one day! Don’t just shun them; don’t… — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
One of my strengths is I have a pretty even temperament. I don't get too high when it's high and I don't… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image