Aphorism Quotes
75 quotes by 57 authors
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No aphorism is more frequently repeated in connection with field trials, than that we must ask Nature few questions, or, ideally, one question, at a…
— Ronald Fisher
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Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 153
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Finally, to the theme of the respiratory chain, it is especially noteworthy that David Kellin's chemically simple view of the respiratory chain appears now to…
— Peter D. Mitchell
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On the last day, when the general examination takes place, there will be no question at all on the text of Aristotle, the aphorisms of…
— Robert Bellarmine
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Despite popular conviction, a writer needn't wear black, be unshaven, sickly and parade around New York's East Village spewing aphorisms and scaring children.
— Noah Lukeman
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Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.
— F. H. Bradley
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An aphorism? Fire without flames. Understandable that no one tries to warm himself at it.
— Emile M. Cioran
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Santayana's aphorism must be reversed: too often it is those who can remember the past who are condemned to repeat it.
— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
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Aphorisms are literature's hand luggage. Light and compact, they fit easily into the overhead compartment of your brain.
— James Geary
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If our planet has seen some eighty billion people it is difficult to suppose hat every individual has had his or her own repertory of…
— Milan Kundera
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The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree.
— Mason Cooley
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We endeavor to stuff the universe into the gullet of an aphorism.
— Paul Eldridge
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The striking aphorism requires a stricken aphorist.
— Alfred Polgar
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Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.
— Anatole Broyard
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In an aphorism, aptness counts for more than truth.
— Mason Cooley
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APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom.
— Ambrose Bierce
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There is, however, only one idea of duty which has been universally accepted by all mankind, of all ages and sects and countries, and that…
— Swami Vivekananda
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The hunter for aphorisms on human nature has to fish in muddy water, and he is even condemned to find much of his own mind.
— F. H. Bradley
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The excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some useful truth…
— Samuel Johnson
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An aphorism is never exactly true; it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths.
— Karl Kraus
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