Apt Quotes

410 quotes by 323 authors

The theory of evolution by natural selection is an ecological theory-founded on ecological observation by perhaps the greatest of all ecologists. It has been adopted… — John L. Harper
Homosexuality is regarded as shameful by barbarians and by those who live under despotic governments just as philosophy is regarded as shameful by them, because… — Plato
In a heated argument we are apt to lose sight of the truth. — Publilius Syrus
There are many points in the history of an invention which the inventor himself is apt to overlook as trifling, but in which posterity never… — David Brewster
Popularity, I have always thought, may aptly be compared to a coquette-the more you woo her, the more apt is she to elude your embrace. — John Tyler
One is apt to think of moral failure as due to weakness of character: more often it is due to an inadequate ideal. — Richard Livingstone
I wonder if Communists occupied in producing plays are not safer than Communists starving to death. I have always felt that whatever your beliefs might… — Eleanor Roosevelt
In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel; and the remainder of life may be not idly spent… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
People who are so dreadfully "devoted" to their wives are so apt, from mere habit, to get devoted to other people's wives as well. — Jane Welsh Carlyle
In the past I have declined to comment on my own work: because, it seems to me, a poem is what it is; because a… — James Schuyler
I don't dream songs. I'm more apt to write dreams down and then to be able to interpret them into a song. I also tend… — Judy Collins
Businesses planned for service are apt to succeed businesses planned for profit are apt to fail. — Nicholas Murray Butler
History is apt to judge harshly those who sacrifice tomorrow for today. — Harold MacMillan
We are apt to mistake our vocation by looking out of the way for occasions to exercise great and rare virtues, and by stepping over… — Hannah More
An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon
But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it… — Baron de Montesquieu
There is nothing in England that exercises a more delightful spell over my imagination than the lingerings of the holiday customs and rural games of… — Washington Irving
In my opinion, no single design is apt to be optimal for everyone. — Donald A. Norman
Without its daydreams, the self is apt to shrink down to the size and shape of the estimation of others — Michael Pollan
A human being in a neurotic state might very well be compared to a bewitched person, for people caught in a neurosis are apt to… — Marie-Louise von Franz

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