Best Grand Wisdom
1113 Grand quotes by 869 unique authors
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Yes, I'm afraid the life over here is very different from N.Z. but oh boy it's a grand life.
— Jack Lovelock
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Freud, one of the grand masters of narrative, knew that the past is not fixed in the way that linear time suggests. We can return.…
— Jeanette Winterson
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The specific disease doctrine is the grand refuge of weak, uncultured, unstable minds, such as now rule in the medical profession. There are no specific…
— Florence Nightingale
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Love is not about grand intentions. It is about small attentions.
— Robert Breault
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The president's grand experiment in trickle-down government has held back rather than sped economic recovery. He seems to sincerely believe we can build a middle…
— Mitch Daniels
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Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. (Le temps est un grand maître, dit-on; le malheur est qu'il soit un…
— Hector Berlioz
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Kenny Burrell is the grand master of jazz guitar.
— Dizzy Gillespie
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.. the Grand Ole Opry used to come on, and I used to watch that. They used to have some pretty heavy cats, heavy guitar…
— Jimi Hendrix
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My folks were country music performers. They made records and even did a few tours with the Grand Ole Opry. There always were a lot…
— Lenny Breau
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You may depend upon it, religion is, in its essence, the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It will alone gentilize, if unmixed with cant;…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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One of the grand fundamental principles of Mormonism is to receive truth, let it come from whence it may.
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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Friendship is one of the grand fundamental principles of “Mormonism”; [it is designed] to revolutionize and civilize the world, and cause wars and contentions to…
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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While people argue with one another about the specifics of Freud's work and blame him for the prejudices of his time, they overlook the fundamental…
— Andrew Solomon
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Among other grand achievements, F. A. Hayek had a remarkable career pointing out the flaws in collectivism. One of his keenest insights was that, paradoxically,…
— Sheldon Richman
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Invite the best and brightest to compete for a grand prize to come up with designs, including new zoning, building codes and so forth, for…
— Billy Tauzin
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My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves, chearful meadows, and high distant forests, which in grand order presented themselves to…
— William Bartram
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When I gave up a grand slam to Pete LaCock, I knew it was time to quit.
— Bob Gibson
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Wars are not all evil, they are part of the grand machinery by which this world is governed.
— William Tecumseh Sherman
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The grand instructor, time.
— Edmund Burke
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The Universe is a grand book which cannot be read until one first learns to comprehend the language and become familiar with the characters in…
— Galileo Galilei
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To the dim and bewildered vision of humanity, God's care is more evident in some instances than in others; and upon such instances men seize,…
— George MacDonald
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There are very few errors and false doctrines of which the beginning may not be traced up to unsound views about the corruption of human…
— J C Ryle
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I want people to fill their minds with passages of Scripture while they are well and strong, that they may have sure help in the…
— J C Ryle
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Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing more than medicine on a grand scale.
— Rudolf Virchow
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For every grand and finely worded statement by the CEO, the brand is also defined by derisory consumer comments overheard in a hallway, or in…
— Scott Bedbury
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