Fanciful Quotes

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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
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
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
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
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
Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial. — Sophocles
A written discourse on any subject is bound to contain much that is fanciful. — Plato
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
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
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
Night will always remain a cat's magical, fanciful time. — Jerry Climer
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
....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
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
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
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
[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
Iâ€™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
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
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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