Acuteness Quotes

12 quotes by 12 authors

• What distinguishes the language of science from language as we ordinarily understand the word? ... What science strives for is an utmost acuteness and clarity… — Albert Einstein
• I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her… — Robert Burns
• Constitutions are not designed for metaphysical or logical subtleties, for niceties of expression, for critical propriety, for elaborate shades of meaning, or for the exercise… — Joseph Story
• That coarseness and strength combined with acuteness and inquisitiveness; that practical, inventive turn of mind, quick to find expedients; that masterful grasp of material things,… — Frederick Jackson Turner
• Lord, enlighten thou our enemies. Sharpen their wits, give acuteness to their perceptions, and consecutiveness and clearness to their reasoning powers: we are in danger… — John Stuart Mill
• Our people are slow to learn the wisdom of sending character instead of talent to Congress. Again and again they have sent a man of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• All those years I fell for the great palace lie that grief should be gotten over as quickly as possible and as privately. But, what… — Anne Lamott
• Persons without education certainly do not want either acuteness or strength of mind in what concerns themselves, or in things immediately within their observation; but… — William Hazlitt
• Thanks to the acuteness of his mind, he saw through the poverty of philosophical and Gnostic knowledge, and contemptuously rejected it. — Carl Jung
• A critic recently described me, with deadly acuteness, as having 'a kindly dislike of my fellow-creatures.' Perhaps dread would have been nearer the mark than… — George Bernard Shaw
• And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense? --now, I say, there came to my… — Edgar Allan Poe
• We owe few of the rules of writing to the acuteness of critics, who have generally no other merit than that, having read the works… — Samuel Johnson

Who Wrote These Acuteness Quotes

12 authors contributed a total of 12 Acuteness Quotes as follows:

• 1 Acuteness Quote by William Hazlitt
• 1 Acuteness Quote by Carl Jung
• 1 Acuteness Quote by George Bernard Shaw
• 1 Acuteness Quote by Edgar Allan Poe
• 1 Acuteness Quote by Samuel Johnson
• 1 Acuteness Quote by Albert Einstein
• 1 Acuteness Quote by Robert Burns
• 1 Acuteness Quote by Joseph Story
• 1 Acuteness Quote by Frederick Jackson Turner
• 1 Acuteness Quote by John Stuart Mill
• 1 Acuteness Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
• 1 Acuteness Quote by Anne Lamott