Aphorisms Quotes
32 Aphorisms quotes by 27 unique authors
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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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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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Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.
— Anatole Broyard
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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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'Character," says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms - character is destiny'.
— George Eliot
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Aphorisms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling.
— William Rounseville Alger
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The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.
— Elias Canetti
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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
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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
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What are your Axioms, and Categories, and Systems, and Aphorisms? Words, words.... Be not the slave of Words...
— Thomas Carlyle
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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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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
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Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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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
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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
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Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.
— Karl Kraus
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There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.
— Vladimir Nabokov
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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
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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
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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
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I believe aphorisms are best when first read in the wild, free from the confines of any categories.
— James Geary
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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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