Keenest Quotes
33 quotes by 32 authors
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A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions…
— John Adams
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For keenest enjoyment, I visit when the dew is on them, or in cloudy weather, or when the rain is falling: and I must be…
— David Fairchild
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Now a soldier's spirit is keenest in the morning; by noonday it has begun to flag; and in the evening, his mind is only on…
— Sun Tzu
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The art of life lies in taking pleasures as they pass, and the keenest pleasures are not intellectual, nor are they always moral.
— Aristippus
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Reading enables us to see with the keenest eyes, to hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time.
— James Russell Lowell
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The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
— Sophocles
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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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Individualism has come in for an enormous amount of criticism over the years. It still does. It is widely assumed to be synonymous with selfishness...But…
— Margaret Thatcher
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'T is hers to pluck the amaranthine flower Of faith, and round the sufferer's temples bind Wreaths that endure affliction's heaviest shower, And do not…
— William Wordsworth
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Publicity is the very soul of justice. It is the keenest spur to exertion, and the surest of all guards against improbity.
— Jeremy Bentham
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I know, indeed, of nothing more subtly satisfying and cheering than a knowledge of the real good will and appreciation of others. Such happiness does…
— William Dean Howells
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Sex endows the individual with a dumb and powerful instinct, which carries his body and soul continually towards another, makes it one of the dearest…
— George Santayana
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Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity. ... The…
— David Gelernter
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Science has helped us to understand and master ourselves, creating an elevated new form of human life, the wealth and beauty of which cannot be…
— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
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A knife of the keenest steel requires the whetstone, and the wisest man needs advice.
— Zoroaster
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Behind my non-cooperation there is always the keenest desire to cooperate on the slightest pretext even with the worst of opponents. To me, a very…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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The most intolerable pain is produced by prolonging the keenest pleasure.
— George Bernard Shaw
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And if thought and emotion can persist in this way so long after the brain that sent them forth has crumpled into dust, how vitally…
— Algernon Blackwood
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Going to a restaurant is one of my keenest pleasures. Meeting someplace with old and new friends, ordering wine, eating food, surrounded by strangers, I…
— Adam Gopnik
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Would you hurt a man keenest strike at his self-love?
— Lew Wallace
Who Wrote These Keenest Quotes
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