Acute Quotes
154 quotes by 144 authors
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Biography should be written by an acute enemy.
— Arthur Balfour
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.
— Thomas Jefferson
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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
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...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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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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
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One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.
— William Lyon Phelps
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Acute [diseases] meaning those of which God is the author, chronic meaning those that originate in ourselves.
— Thomas Sydenham
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Understand the acute difference between the cost of something and the value of something.
— Robin Sharma
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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
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The risk from terrorism remains acute and the private market cannot continue to operate without a government backstop.
— Michael Oxley
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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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