Acute Quotes

154 quotes by 144 authors

Biography should be written by an acute enemy. — Arthur Balfour
None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political… — Lydia M. Child
Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly… — Leonard Cohen
Too frequent rewards indicate that the general is at the end of his resources; too frequent punishments that he is in acute distress. — Sun Tzu
We find a place for what we lose. Although we know that after such a loss the acute stage of mourning will subside, we also… — Sigmund Freud
I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise. — Thomas Jefferson
Like all good things, prayer requires some discipline. Yet I believe that life with God should seem more like friendship than duty. Prayer includes moments… — Philip Yancey
...all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the… — Hippocrates
He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his fellows as almost… — Baruch Spinoza
I remember the days of my youth when everything was new and bright; when the mind was always questing, searching, absorbing; when the pain of… — Jennifer Worth
Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life, and are attached to the duties, yet escape the harsher blows, make acute… — George Meredith
What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or dysentery, chronic and… — Florence Nightingale
Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. — Friedrich Nietzsche
It is a curious and painful fact that almost all the completely futile treatments that have been believed in during the long history of medical… — Bertrand Russell
One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute. — William Lyon Phelps
Acute [diseases] meaning those of which God is the author, chronic meaning those that originate in ourselves. — Thomas Sydenham
Understand the acute difference between the cost of something and the value of something. — Robin Sharma
In the dog two conditions were found to produce pathological disturbances by functional interference, namely, an unusually acute clashing of the excitatory and inhibitory processes,… — Ivan Pavlov
The risk from terrorism remains acute and the private market cannot continue to operate without a government backstop. — Michael Oxley
Sentimental assertions are always a form of detachment; they confront the acute, terrible awareness of individual pain, the sharp particularity of loss or the fierce… — Mark Doty

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