Insuperable Quotes

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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
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
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
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
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
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
Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress. — Ellen Terry
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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