Chiefly Quotes

232 quotes by 184 authors

Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming… — Petrarch
Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so. — Edgar Allan Poe
All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul. — John Ruskin
Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes. — E F Schumacher
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of… — Igor Stravinsky
Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing. — Henry David Thoreau
The difficult task of knowing another soul is not for young gentlemen whose consciousness is chiefly made up of their own wishes. — George Eliot
Few people...have had much training in listening. The training of most oververbalized professional intellectuals is in the opposite direction. Living in a competitive culture, most… — S I Hayakawa
She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring. — Zelda Fitzgerald
The humans live in time but our Enemy destines them to eternity. He therefore, I believe, wants them to attend chiefly to two things, to… — C.S. Lewis
There is a proverbial saying chiefly concerned with warning against too closely calculating the numerical value of un-hatched chicks. — Neil Gaiman
If the heart be chiefly and directly fixed on God, and the soul engaged to glorify him, some degree of religious affection will be the… — Jonathan Edwards
Ordinary people waited till life disclosed to them its secrets, but to the few, to the elect, the mysteries of life were revealed before the… — Oscar Wilde
A man who would letterspace lower case would steal sheep, Frederic Goudy liked to say. If this wisdom needs updating, it is chiefly to add… — Robert Bringhurst
He told people that their sins were forgiven, and never waited to consult all the other people whom their sins had undoubtedly injured. He unhesitatingly… — C.S. Lewis
A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation's flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its… — Henry Ward Beecher
Perhaps, indeed, there are no truly universal ethics: or to put it more precisely, the ways in which ethical principles are interpreted will inevitably differ… — Howard Gardner
Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the… — Woodrow Wilson
He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself. — D. H. Lawrence
Atoms are mainly empty space. Matter is composed chiefly of nothing. — Carl Sagan

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