Fanciful Quotes
35 quotes by 33 authors
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[To] explain the phenomena of the mineral kingdom ... systems are usually reduced to two classes, according as they refer to the origin of terrestrial…
— John Playfair
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There is no hope for the fanciful idea of reaching the moon because of insurmountable barriers to escaping the earth's gravity
— Forest Ray Moulton
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So in writing, there is always a right word, and every other than that is wrong. There is no beauty in words except in their…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Births and deaths are inevitable for man only during the state of ignorance in which he thinks he is the body and cannot exist without…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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If it were not somewhat fanciful to suppose that every human excellence is presented, as it were, in one kind of being, we might believe…
— Wilhelm von Humboldt
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Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.
— Sophocles
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A written discourse on any subject is bound to contain much that is fanciful.
— Plato
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The blacks, those magnificent examples of the African race who have conserved their racial purity by a lack of affinity with washing, have seen their…
— Che Guevara
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Supposing I said there was a planet without schools or teachers, where study was unknown, and yet the inhabitants -- doing nothing but live and…
— Maria Montessori
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New York remains what it has always been : a city of ebb and flow, a city of constant shifts of population and economics, a…
— Paul Goldberger
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Night will always remain a cat's magical, fanciful time.
— Jerry Climer
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Now the word-symbols of conceptual ideas have passed so long from hand to hand in the service of the understanding, that they have gradually lost…
— Wilhelm Wundt
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....This world needs Utopias as it needs fairy stories. It does not matter so much where we are going, as long as we are making…
— Hendrik Willem van Loon
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Such are the mass of the supporters of either party. They derive their political opinions originally from some family tradition or some fanciful preference, but…
— Hilaire Belloc
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Come, see the north-wind's masonry, Out of an unseen quarry evermore Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer Curves his white bastions with projected roof Round…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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When I was at college, the idea of fashion was more immediate to me, whereas art photography, the depth of it, was a different thing.…
— Tim Walker
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[A]ll the ingenious men, and all the scientific men, and all the fanciful men, in the world,... could never invent, if all their wits were…
— Charles Kingsley
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I’m the least fanciful guy around, but on nights when I wonder whether there was any point to my day, I think about this: the…
— Tana French
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TEDIUM, n. Ennui, the state or condition of one that is bored. Many fanciful derivations of the word have been affirmed, but so high an…
— Ambrose Bierce
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What mortal is there, over whose first joys and happiness does not break some storm, dispelling with its icy breath his fanciful illusions, and shattering…
— Alphonse de Lamartine
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