Universal Quotes · Page 20

One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.

— Horace

You have to be careful of the pictures you make. You should ask, Will it have universal appeal, will it have an…

— Van Heflin

Without doubt, God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it.

— Joseph de Maistre

The experience of the human race indicates strongly that the only person in abundant supply is the universal incompetent.

— Peter Drucker

Surely man was not created to be an idle fellow; he was not set in this universal orchard to stand still as…

— Thomas Dekker

I ought never to act except in such a way that I could also will that my maxim should become a universal…

— Immanuel Kant

I am so excited for the magic I'll be able to create and produce with Universal.

— Marsai Martin

“Has deducido una verdad universal: la realidad suele ser injusta.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

There's consciousness in my music, and my music comes from a conscious place. And when people say that, I certainly take it…

— Talib Kweli

I want to make a series of films of contemporary America that feel urgent and deal with sometimes-topical matters, but hopefully in…

— Peter Hedges

Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois.

— Susan Sontag

Beauty matters. It is not just a subjective thing but a universal need of human beings. If we ignore this need we…

— Roger Scruton

Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places, that history informs us of nothing new or strange in this…

— David Hume

Here's the thing: we don't write music for a universal statement; we just share our experiences. And that's all it is. It's…

— Kevin Abstract

I think the No. 1 universal thing is that everybody's got that silly thing in their closet that they think could be…

— Corey Harrison

The ideal of universal literacy, in the West anyway, was first of all a Protestant idea - that everybody had to be…

— Robert Hass

Who you really are, is an immaterial soul and the body is an external thing that's sort of an encrustation your soul.…

— Peter Adamson

Since inequalities of privilege are greater than could possibly be defended rationally, the intelligence of privileged groups is usually applied to the…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

Universal peace as a result of cumulative effort through centuries past might come into existence quickly - not unlike a crystal that…

— Nikola Tesla

Realising the healthy international relations can be created only among populations made up of individuals who themselves are healthy and enjoy a…

— Albert Einstein

No people ever recognize their dictator in advance. He never stands for election on the platform of dictatorship. He always represents himself…

— Dorothy Thompson

There are, in human affairs, two kinds of problems: those which are amenable to a technical solution and those which are not.…

— Atul Gawande

I use a lot of different words for God - infinite intelligence, primordial, perfection or universal creativity. All of these, to me,…

— Alex Grey

The great works belong to no one nation, no one cultural tradition even. They are universal.I want an Australian vision of arts…

— George Brandis

The time of universal peace is near. Prove this a prosp'rous day, the three-nooked world Shall bear the olive freely.

— William Shakespeare

That's why I write fiction, because I want to write these stories that people will read and find universal.

— Jesmyn Ward

The great works belong to no one nation, no one cultural tradition even. They are universal.

— George Brandis

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

— Marcus Aurelius

The only way you can be universal is to be sure you are very specifically local.

— Damon Galgut

Money is a stupid measure of achievement, but unfortunately it is the only universal measure we have.

— Charles Proteus Steinmetz

“A felicidade universal mantém as engrenagens em funcionamento regular; a verdade e a beleza são incapazes de fazê-lo.”

— Aldous Huxley

Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world.

— Isaac Asimov

It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them.

— Anonymous

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

— Immanuel Kant

Satyagraha, of which civil resistance is but a part, is to me the universal law of life.

— Mahatma Gandhi

A universal applause is seldom less than two thirds of a scandal

— Roger L'Estrange

No man needs curing of his individual sickness; his universal malady is what he should look to.

— Djuna Barnes

It is a universal principle that whenever one refuses to use his God-given powers, these powers decay and perish.

— Ellen G. White

Quotation is more universal and more ancient than one would perhaps believe.

— James Boswell

We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.

— Alfred de Vigny