Likely Quotes
2182 quotes by 1599 authors
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Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible - or even sinful - that you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of…
— Paul MacCready
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He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Passion. The life of an entrepreneur is occasionally exhilarating, and almost always exhausting. Only unbridled passion for the concept is likely to see you through…
— Tom Peters
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No man who has lived through a temporary spiritual experience is ever likely to forget it. His days will be haunted until he sets out…
— Paul Brunton
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The significance of a fact is relative to [the general body of scientific] knowledge. To say that a fact is significant in science, is to…
— Bertrand Russell
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We find it hard to picture to ourselves the state of mind of a man of older days who firmly believed that the Earth was…
— Anatole France
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What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to…
— Simone Weil
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Each person must decide for himself what he wants each day. As a leader, I will expose you to the options and the likely consequences…
— Wayne Dyer
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The investor's chief problem - and even his worst enemy - is likely to be himself.
— Benjamin Graham
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The most likely cause of a man's depression is his failure to be the man he thinks he should be
— Frank Pittman
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The more wary you are of danger, the more likely you are to meet it.
— Jean de La Fontaine
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In a few hundred years, when the history of our time will be written from a long-term perspective, it is likely that the most important…
— Peter Drucker
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The maxim, that governments ought to train the people in the way in which they should go, sounds well. But is there any reason for…
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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The most important and visible outcropping of the action bias in excellent companies is their willingness to try things out, to experiment. If you wait…
— Tom Peters
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The police can't stop an intruder, mugger, or stalker from hurting you. They can pursue him only after he has hurt or killed you. Protecting…
— Harry Browne
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He who regulates everything by laws, is more likely to arouse vices than reform them.
— Baruch Spinoza
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Nobody can be trusted with unlimited power. The more power a regime has, the more likely people will be killed. This is a major reason…
— Rudolph Rummel
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Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. Genuine ignorance is profitable because it…
— John Dewey
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Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a…
— Sydney J. Harris
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