Insensible Quotes
53 Insensible quotes by 50 unique authors
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The late John Jacob Astor, a personage little given to poetic enthusiasm, had no hesitation in pronouncing my first grand point to be prudence; my…
— Herman Melville
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Don Quixote followed nature, and being satisfied with his first sleep, did not solicit more. As for Sancho, he never wanted a second, for the…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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We live half our waking lives and all of our sleeping lives in some private, useless, and insensible waters we never mention or recall.
— Annie Dillard
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All over the world today, not just in the totalitarian countries, assiduous functionaries in Ministries of Truth are clubbing history dumb and rendering language insensible.
— E L Doctorow
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Tis very great pity that they who are so apt to over-rate themselves in smaller matters, shou'd, where it most concerns them to know, and…
— Mary Astell
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So, Fabricius, I already have this: that the most true path of the planet [Mars] is an ellipse, which Dürer also calls an oval, or…
— Johannes Kepler
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Minute and elaborately finished pictures never strongly impress the mind, and are but mere curiosities to gratify persons insensible to higher excellencies.
— Samuel Prout
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Christ alone has succeeded in so raising the mind of man towards the unseen that it become insensible to the barriers of time and space.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person; if her face is so shocking that she must…
— Bill Vaughan
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One who belongs to the most vilified and persecuted minority in history is not likely to be insensible to the freedoms guaranteed by our Constitution...…
— Felix Frankfurter
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Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while…
— Diogenes
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The chief benefit, which results from philosophy, arises in an indirect manner, and proceeds more from its secret, insensible influence, than from its immediate application.
— David Hume
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We are intelligent beings: intelligent beings cannot have been formed by a crude, blind, insensible being: there is certainly some difference between the ideas of…
— Voltaire
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But I believe the words entered me and changed me and still work in me. The words eat me and sustain me. And when I'm…
— Charles Frazier
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Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks. In order to bear it…
— Sigmund Freud
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With wine and food, the confidence of my own table, and the necessity of reassuring my wife, I grew by insensible degrees courageous and secure.
— H.G. Wells
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Yes, I found myself, by insensible degrees, sincerely fond of her; and the happiest hours of my life were what I spent with her.
— Jane Austen
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Before you save anyone else, you have to save yourself. otherwise, you'rejust a bundle of tics, a stringed puppet manipulated by the chance and the…
— Gregory Maguire
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God has made us so that we must be mutually dependent. We may ignore our own dependence, or refuse to acknowledge that others depend upon…
— Elizabeth Gaskell
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It was clear to me that it wouldn't matter what I did - they would never truly appreciate me or learn what I had to…
— Jeff Lindsay
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It is a sure sign of a mind not balanced as it ought to be, when it is insensible to the pleasures of the domestic…
— James Ellis
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A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.
— Saadi
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The literal record was not a hopelessly and imperfect fraction of truly insensible gradation within large populations but an accurate reflection of the actual process…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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RASH, adj. Insensible to the value of our advice.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Old age has been charged with being insensible to pleasure and to enjoyments arising from the gratification of the senses, a most blessed and heavenly…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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