Desultory Quotes

9 quotes by 9 authors

• All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon's time, that there can be no real knowledge but that which is based on observed facts. This is… — Auguste Comte
• There is no temper more unpropitious to interest than desultory application and unlimited inquiry, by which the desires are held in a perpetual equipoise, and… — Samuel Johnson
• Find time still to be learning somewhat good, and give up being desultory. — Marcus Aurelius
• The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged. — William Cowper
• He had no settled plan of life, nor looked forward at all, but merely lived from day to day. Yet he read a great deal… — James Boswell
• Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning. — Arthur Conan Doyle
• My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little. — F. Sionil Jose
• Hey your so smart well once you tell the definiton of braggadocio and...Acclaim Accolade Adamant Advocate Affable Alienate Altruistic Ambiguous Amity Anarchy Apathy Appease Asperity… — MrAwesome
• One book at a time... though I'm usually doing the research for others while I'm writing, but that sort of research is fairly desultory and… — Bernard Cornwell

Who Wrote These Desultory Quotes

9 authors contributed a total of 9 Desultory Quotes as follows:

• 1 Desultory Quote by MrAwesome
• 1 Desultory Quote by Bernard Cornwell
• 1 Desultory Quote by Auguste Comte
• 1 Desultory Quote by Samuel Johnson
• 1 Desultory Quote by Marcus Aurelius
• 1 Desultory Quote by William Cowper
• 1 Desultory Quote by James Boswell
• 1 Desultory Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle
• 1 Desultory Quote by F. Sionil Jose