Aphorism Quotes

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We have oftener than once endeavoured to attach some meaning to that aphorism, vulgarly imputed to Shaftesbury, which however we can find nowhere in his… — John Keats
'Character," says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms - character is destiny'. — George Eliot
...if we know God our knowledge of... everything will be brought to perfection, and, in so far as is possible, the infinite, divine and ineffable… — Pope Dionysius
Aphorisms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling. — William Rounseville Alger
I do not know to whom the aphorism 'There are no sound studies, only ones that haven't been busted yet' belongs, but it has measure… — Mark Dvoretsky
I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think… — Sam Waterston
The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well. — Elias Canetti
All of us encounter, at least once in our life, some individual who utters words that make us think forever. There are men whose phrases… — Benjamin Disraeli
An aphorism is a single sentence that totally exhausts its subject. — Robert Breault
Aphorism, n.: A concise, clever statement you donâ€™t think of until too late. — James Alexander Thom
APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom. The flabby wine-skin of his brain Yields to some pathologic strain, And voids from its unstored abysm The driblet of an… — Ambrose Bierce
Euphonic and harmonious expressions, forcible and just expressions, profound and comprehensive expressions, and especially apt and witty expressions, each have their specific influence upon different… — Charles Simmons
A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food… — Friedrich Nietzsche
How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life,… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The aphorism is cultivated only by those who have known fear in the midst of words, that fear of collapsing with all the words. — Emile M. Cioran
The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms are not my… — Andre Gide
What are your Axioms, and Categories, and Systems, and Aphorisms? Words, words.... Be not the slave of Words... — Thomas Carlyle
The trick to writing an aphorism is to place a period at the point where you're inclined to say, "in other words.... — Robert Breault
A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The best aphorisms are.... portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling. They furnish the largest amount of intellectual stimulus and nutriment in the… — William Rounseville Alger

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