Chief Quotes

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Humankind's chief fault is that they have so many small ones. — Jean Paul
One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and credulity could be enormously diminished by instructions as to the prevalent forms of mendacity. Credulity… — Bertrand Russell
The investor's chief problem - and even his worst enemy - is likely to be himself. — Benjamin Graham
Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief source of every error in… — Sarah Fielding
The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading. — H. L. Mencken
Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and… — Hubert H. Humphrey
So the case stands, and under all the passion of the parties and the cries of battle lie the two chief moving causes of the… — Charles Dickens
The morphological characteristics of plant and animal species form the chief subject of the descriptive natural sciences and are the criteria for their classification. But… — Karl Landsteiner
There is scarce any one invention, which this nation has produced in our age, but it has some way or other been set forward by… — Robert Hooke
That is the way of the scientist. He will spend thirty years in building up a mountain range of facts with the intent to prove… — Mark Twain
Of these austerer virtues the love of truth is the chief, and in mathematics, more than elsewhere, the love of truth may find encouragement for… — Bertrand Russell
United could soon overtake Arsenal as the chief threat to Chelsea, and defiant Keane vowed: We will keep fighting to the end. We are Manchester… — Roy Keane
If there are any gods whose chief concern is man, they can't be very important gods. — Arthur C. Clarke
Most codes extend their definitions of treason to acts not really against one's country. They do not distinguish between acts against the government, and acts… — Thomas Jefferson
The chief distinction in the intellectual powers of the two sexes is shown by mans attaining to a higher eminence, in whatever he takes up,… — Charles Darwin
Gratitude is one of the chief graces of human existence and is crowned in heaven with a consciousness of unity. — Ernest Holmes
We forget ourselves and our destinies in health, and the chief use of temporary sickness is to remind us of these concerns. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The chief object of every golf architect or greenkeeper worth his salt is to imitate the beauties of nature so closely as to make his… — Alister MacKenzie
Education has now become the chief problem of the world, its one holy cause. The nations that see this will survive, and those that fail… — G. Stanley Hall
What is [the role of money] in the search for meaning? Is our relationship to it one of the chief factors that keeps us in… — Jacob Needleman

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