Civilised Quote by Ariel Durant Download Open image “No man who is in a hurry is quite civilised.” — Ariel Durant ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Civilised Men
A civilised man is someone who has discovered something more satisfying than combat. — John Keegan Copy Share Image
We have a saying in Marseilles: a man in no hurry gets nowhere fast. I have been in no hurry for eight years. — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
A wise man does not try to hurry history. Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste. — Adlai Stevenson I Copy Share Image
If you must be in a hurry, then let it be according to the old adage, and hasten slowly. — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
He is invariably in a hurry being in a hurry is one of the tributes he pays to life. — Elizabeth Bibesco Copy Share Image
There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Mozart began his works in childhood and a childlike quality lurked in his compositions until it dawned on him that the Requiem he was… — Ariel Durant Copy Share Image
If you have character, endeavor, personality, courage and the capacity for concentrated labor, you will do what is your destiny – and, perhaps, even… — Ariel Durant Copy Share Image
A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within. — Ariel Durant Copy Share Image
The influence of geographic factors diminishes as technology grows. The character and contour of a terrain may offer opportunities for agriculture, mining, or trade,… — Ariel Durant Copy Share Image
When his apprenticeship was finished (the candidate for Knighthood) was received into the Knightly Order by a ritual of sacramental awe... — Ariel Durant Copy Share Image
The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding. — Ariel Durant Copy Share Image
“We must operate with partial knowledge, and be provisionally content with probabilities.” — Ariel Durant Copy Share Image
Even today to be civilised is held to be synonymous with being westernised. Advanced countries devote large resources to formulating and spreading ideas and… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
On this waterlogged landscape....are scattered palaces and hovels....It is here that the human spirit becomes perfect, and at the same time brutalised, that civilisation… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
When we get civilised, I believe children will go by number until they get old enough to choose their own names. — Myrtle Reed Copy Share Image
This extraordinary metal, the soul of every manufacture, and the mainspring perhaps of civilised society. Of iron. — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
The civilised cultures are the most cruel. It's the same with education - often it breeds sadistic forms of cruelty. — Nellie McKay Copy Share Image
This generation may either be the last to exist in any semblance of a civilised world or that it will be the first to… — Richard St. Barbe Baker Copy Share Image
Bombing is not especially inhumane. War itself is inhumane and the bombing plane, which is used to paralyse industry and transport, is a relatively… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I suffered most inconvenience from the difficulty of getting news from the civilised world down river, from the irregularity of receipt of letters, parcels… — Henry Walter Bates Copy Share Image
Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
You get the feeling that many of my guests feel that the French language gives them entry into a more cultivated, more intelligent world,… — Bernard Pivot Copy Share Image
All civilised countries should unite in the fight against international terrorism. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
The true savage is a slave, and is always talking about what he must do; the true civilised man is a free man, and… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
