Apt Quotes

410 quotes by 323 authors

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it. — William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of thinking that the… — Alfred North Whitehead
In these days, a man who says a thing cannot be done is quite apt to be interrupted by some idiot doing it. — Elbert Hubbard
We always have visions, before a thing is made real. When we realize that although the vision is real, it is not real in us,… — Oswald Chambers
The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also. — Harriet Ann Jacobs
Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born - the beneficiary inasmuch as… — Aldous Huxley
Your kids might feel more apt to try some art of their own after viewing contemporary works that are far less intimidating than those of… — Lynda Resnick
For purposes of marketing, writers are designated as poets, novelists, or something else. But writing is about matchmaking, an attempt to marry sensations with apt… — Teju Cole
Committed partisans are generally the most knowledgeable voters, independents the least. And the more political knowledge people have, the more apt they are to discuss… — George Will
Knowledge is the parent of knowledge. He who possesses most of the information of his age will not quietly submit to neglect its current acquisitions,… — James Fenimore Cooper
The sentimental view of anything is apt to be ridiculous, but I feel that I have been unusually sensitive to the issue of place since… — James Howard Kunstler
We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching. — Roy L. Smith
Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth. — Jeremy Taylor
Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them. — Lady Bird Johnson
Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudiced in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and recommended by custom. — Robert Hall
The people who work in intelligence work are more conscious, more apt to be attentive. — William Hedgcock Webster
It is odd how learned persons fail to see that new terms and definitions are apt to mean new doubts and litigation. — Frederick Pollock
Wit in women is apt to have bad consequences; like a sword without a scabbard, it wounds the wearer and provokes assailants. — Elizabeth Montagu
Standardization of our educational systems is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than… — Harvey Cushing
In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts. — Harold MacMillan

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