Acuteness Quotes
12 quotes by 12 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Thanks to the acuteness of his mind, he saw through the poverty of philosophical and Gnostic knowledge, and contemptuously rejected it.
— Carl Jung
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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
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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
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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: