Aphorisms Quotes

32 Aphorisms quotes by 27 unique authors

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
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
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
Aphorisms are literature's hand luggage. Light and compact, they fit easily into the overhead compartment of your brain. — James Geary
Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth. — Anatole Broyard
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
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
'Character," says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms - character is destiny'. — George Eliot
Aphorisms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling. — William Rounseville Alger
The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well. — Elias Canetti
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
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 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
Aphorisms are essentially an aristocratic genre of writing. The aphorist does not argue or explain, he asserts; and implicit in his assertion is a conviction… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
One of the aphorisms occurred to me now and I wrote it under the picture: "Fate and temperament are two words for one and the… — Hermann Hesse
Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays. — Karl Kraus
There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion. — Vladimir Nabokov
I compose most of my tweets with care, as if they were aphorisms - they are not usually dashed-off. Sometimes I'm surprised by the high,… — Joyce Carol Oates
I lost many literary battles the day I read 'Their Eyes Were Watching God.' I had to concede that occasionally aphorisms have their power. I… — Zadie Smith
Age certainly hadn't conferred any smarts on me. Character maybe, but mediocrity is a constant, as one Russian writer put it. Russian writers have a… — Haruki Murakami
I believe aphorisms are best when first read in the wild, free from the confines of any categories. — James Geary
Aphorisms are food for thought - like sushi, they come in small portions that are both delicious and exquisitely formed. And, like sushi, I can… — James Geary

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