Insuperable Quotes
28 quotes by 26 authors
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Pride is a vice not only dreadfully mischievous in human society, but perhaps of all others, the most insuperable bar to real inward improvement.
— Elizabeth Carter
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An insuperable obstacle to rapid transit in Africa is the want of carriers, and as speed was the main object of the Expedition under my…
— Henry Morton Stanley
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Why, I wonder, do people who at one time or another have all been young themselves, and who ought therefore to know better, generalize so…
— Vera Brittain
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Our repeated failure to fully act as we would wish must not discourage us. It is the sincere intention that is the essential thing, and…
— Thomas Troward
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Who ... is not familiar with Maxwell's memoirs on his dynamical theory of gases? ... from one side enter the equations of state; from the…
— Ludwig Boltzmann
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Not only did he teach by accomplishment, but he taught by the inspiration of a marvelous imagination that refused to accept the permanence of what…
— Edwin Howard Armstrong
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Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress.
— Ellen Terry
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When the scope of the problem seems insuperable, isn't it time to call this one, give it up, and get on with life as we…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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I always have a high regard for the individual and have an insuperable distaste for violence and clubmanship. All these motives made me into a…
— Albert Einstein
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Why shouldn't you strengthen your own vibrations through fellowship with people seeking Self-realization, and by group meditation with them? This practice will fortify your own…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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What else is it that should trace the insuperable line? Is it the faculty of reason or perhaps the faculty of discourse? But a full-grown…
— Jeremy Bentham
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The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a uniformity of interests.…
— James Madison
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Children, by nature, are keen, passionate and curious. What was referred to as laziness is often merely an awakening of sensitivity, a psychological inability to…
— Octave Mirbeau
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The seemingly insuperable difficulties of deep-space travel suggest an intention to keep us fixed at home in our own solar system, and the physical nature…
— Fred Hoyle
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But if anything in thy own dispositiongives thee pain, who hinders thee from correcting thy opinion? And even if thou art pained because thou art…
— Marcus Aurelius
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The popularity of disaster movies expresses a collective perception of a world threatened by irresistible and unforeseen forces which nevertheless are thwarted at the last…
— David Mamet
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There is an insuperable problem about introducing immigrants to British values. There are no British values. Nor are there any Serbian or Peruvian values. No…
— Terry Eagleton
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The cold, mean 'Sunset Boulevard' - a beautiful title, though I suspect it was shot on another boulevard - is further proof of the resurgence…
— Manny Farber
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No dogma taught by the present civilization seems to form so insuperable an obstacle in a way of a right understanding of the relations which…
— John Muir
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We speak with pride and admiration of that little band of Americans who overcame insuperable odds to set this nation on course 200 years ago.…
— Ronald Reagan
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