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Modes Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Nothing has so exposed men of learning to contempt and ridicule as their ignorance of things which are known to all but themselves. Those who…
- When a language begins to teem with books, it is tending to refinement; as those who undertake to teach others must have undergone some labour…
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- None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth,… — Thomas B. Macaulay
- Kant, discussing the various modes of perception by which the human mind apprehends nature, concluded that it is specially prone to see… — James Jeans
- One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an… — Joseph Story
- Nothing has so exposed men of learning to contempt and ridicule as their ignorance of things which are known to all but… — Samuel Johnson
- Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why… — Oscar Wilde
- Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of… — Paul de Man
- One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an… — Joseph Story
- The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can… — Alfred North Whitehead