Apt Quotes

410 quotes by 323 authors

We are apt to consider that invention is the result of spontaneous action of some heavenborn genius, whose advent we must patiently wait for, but… — John Ambrose Fleming
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him. — Harlan Mathews
Upon the whole, Chymistry is as yet but an opening science, closely connected with the usefull and ornamental arts, and worthy the attention of the… — Joseph Black
Philosophers, if they have much imagination, are apt to let it loose as well as other people, and in such cases are sometimes led to… — Granville Penn
Imagination, on the contrary, which is ever wandering beyond the bounds of truth, joined to self-love and that self-confidence we are so apt to indulge,… — Antoine Lavoisier
Perfect concordance among reformers is not to be expected; and men who are honestly struggling towards the light cannot hope to attain at one bound… — Thomas George Bonney
Those who cannot feel the littleness of great things in themselves are apt to overlook the greatness of little things in others. — Okakura Kakuzo
Nothing is more apt to deceive us than our own judgment of our work. We derive more benefit from having our faults pointed out by… — Leonardo da Vinci
I am not myself apt to be alarmed at innovations recommended by reason. That dread belongs to those whose interests or prejudices shrink from the… — Thomas Jefferson
There has come into existence, chiefly in America, a breed of men who claim to be feminists. They imagine that they have understood what women… — Germaine Greer
You will always find that those are most apt to boast of national merit, who have little or not merit of their own to depend… — Oliver Goldsmith
My love is thine to teach; teach it but how, And thou shalt see how apt it is to learn. Any hard lesson that may… — William Shakespeare
If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends. — Elbert Hubbard
When people are placed in positions slightly above what they expect, they are apt to excel. — Richard Branson
A man is ever apt to contemplate himself out of all proportion to his surroundings. — Christina Rossetti
Where beauty is worshipped for beauty's sake as a goddess, independent of and superior to morality and philosophy, the most horrible putrefaction is apt to… — Aldous Huxley
It will be forgotten, on the one hand, that jealousy is the usual concomitant of violent love, and that the noble enthusiasm of liberty is… — Alexander Hamilton
Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain has his mother. — Robert Frost
I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of the earth, and that things are the sons… — Samuel Johnson
I've found that there are only two kinds that are any good: slang that has established itself in the language, and slang that you make… — Raymond Chandler

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