High Sounding Quotes
12 quotes by 12 authors
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
— Abigail Adams
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What a delight it is to think that you are quietly & philosophically at work in the pursuit of science... rather than fighting amongst the…
— Michael Faraday
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One must shy away from questionable undertakings, even when they bear a high-sounding name.
— Albert Einstein
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In practice [monetary management] is merely a high-sounding euphemism for continuous currency debasement. It consists of constant lying in order to support constant swindling. Instead…
— Henry Hazlitt
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Our Apostolic Mandate requires from Us that We watch over the purity of the Faith and the integrity of Catholic discipline. It requires from Us…
— Pope Pius X
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It will not do merely to listen to great principles. You must apply them in the practical field, turn them into constant practice. What will…
— Swami Vivekananda
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If the church is what it should be, young people will be there. But they will not just 'be there' - they will be there…
— Francis Schaeffer
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Bourgeois democracy is democracy of pompous phrases, solemn words, exuberant promises and the high-sounding slogans of freedom and equality. But, in fact, it screens the…
— Vladimir Lenin
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A woman cannot live in the light of intellect. Society forbids it. Those conventional frivolities, which are called her 'duties', forbid it. Her 'domestic duties',…
— Florence Nightingale
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Peculiar or not, it is my idea of pleasure. Why, why else do you lead this life you don't enjoy it? Don't talk of duty…
— Barbara Mertz
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The first objection to Darwinism is that it is only a guess and was never anything more. It is called a "hypothesis," but the word…
— William Jennings Bryan
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O Fame! if I e'er took delight in thy praises, 'Twas less for the sake of thy high-sounding phrases, Than to see the bright eyes…
— Lord Byron
Who Wrote These High Sounding Quotes
12 authors contributed a total of 12 High Sounding Quotes as follows: