Admirable Quotes

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Education is very admirable but let us not forget that anything worth knowing cannot be taught. — Oscar Wilde
Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution of omnipotence to reason is as bad a piece… — Mahatma Gandhi
As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the other ideals --or, indeed, why it should be an ideal at… — Rose Macaulay
Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography. — Hilaire Belloc
But of all other stupendous inventions, what sublimity of mind must have been his who conceived how to communicate his most secret thoughts to any… — Galileo Galilei
The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most… — Michel de Montaigne
Hero-worship is the deepest root of all; the tap-root, from which in a great degree all the rest were nourished and grown . . .… — Thomas Carlyle
...nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched. — Seneca the Younger
The gap between ideals and actualities, between dreams and achievements, the gap that can spur strong men to increased exertions, but can break the spirit… — George Will
Tolerance is an admirable intellectual gift; but it is of little worth in politics. — Woodrow Wilson
Dialect tempered with slang is an admirable medium of communication between persons who have nothing to say and persons who would not care for anything… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Good deeds, when concealed, are the most admirable. — Blaise Pascal
One of the oddest features of western Christianized culture is its ready acceptance of the myth of the stable family and the happy marriage. We… — Jonathan Raban
When I was 12, all I wanted was to be good at school, and to do something admirable, something you can't take away from me… — Diane Lane
I think it's an amazing quality to be able to roll with the punches and not be totally ruined as a person because life's been… — Anna Paquin
I count myself well educated, for the admirable woman at the head of the school which I attended from the age of four and a… — Catherine Helen Spence
For the liberal state to accommodate a diversity of beliefs while having few positive convictions is one of the more admirable achievements of civilization. — Terry Eagleton
On Being John Malkovich and the cinema of the absurd, I do enjoy it. I wish there were more like it. The very fact that… — Carter Burwell
I think it's very admirable, in a superhero movie, to be able to take a few risks. — Shane Black
Standardization does not produce although admirable as an efficiency method. — Reginald Fessenden

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