Counterpoise Quotes

6 quotes by 6 authors

• Most writers in the course of their careers become thick-skinned and learn to accept vituperation, which in any other profession would be unimaginably offensive, as… — Evelyn Waugh
• Although human ingenuity may devise various inventions which, by the help of various instruments, answer to one and the same purpose, yet will it never… — Leonardo da Vinci
• Unable to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge: from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw… — Lewis Mumford
• LEAD, n. A heavy blue-gray metal much used ... as a counterpoise to an argument of such weight that it turns the scale of debate… — Ambrose Bierce
• Christianity is strange. It bids man recognise that he is vile, even abominable, and bids him desire to be like God. Without such a counterpoise,… — Blaise Pascal
• An intelligent class can scarce ever be, as a class, vicious, and never, as a class, indolent. The excited mental activity operates as a counterpoise… — Edward Everett Hale

Who Wrote These Counterpoise Quotes

6 authors contributed a total of 6 Counterpoise Quotes as follows:

• 1 Counterpoise Quote by Evelyn Waugh
• 1 Counterpoise Quote by Leonardo da Vinci
• 1 Counterpoise Quote by Lewis Mumford
• 1 Counterpoise Quote by Ambrose Bierce
• 1 Counterpoise Quote by Blaise Pascal
• 1 Counterpoise Quote by Edward Everett Hale