Often Quotes

12289 Often quotes by 6196 unique authors

Consciousness succumbs all too easily to unconscious influences, and these are often truer and wiser than our conscious thinking. — Carl Jung
Even one well-made observation will be enough in many cases, just as one well-constructed experiment often suffices for the establishment of a law. — Emile Durkheim
Let people who have to observe sickness and death look back and try to register in their observation the appearances which have preceded relapse, attack… — Florence Nightingale
Edison was by far the most successful and, probably, the last exponent of the purely empirical method of investigation. Everything he achieved was the result… — Nikola Tesla
It is often said that experiments should be made without preconceived ideas. That is impossible. Not only would it make every experiment fruitless, but even… — Henri Poincare
The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error. But science is… — Karl Popper
Receive Communion often, very often...there you have the sole remedy, if you want to be cured. Jesus has not put this attraction in your heart… — Therese of Lisieux
I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy. — Michel de Montaigne
Often the search proves more profitable than the goal. — E L Konigsburg
Men who cannot deceive others are very often successful at deceiving themselves. — Samuel Johnson
We are inconsolable at being deceived by our enemies and being betrayed by our friends, yet we are often content in be being treated like… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought… — Johann Kaspar Lavater
Complete masculinity and stupidity are often indistinguishable. — H. L. Mencken
In giving advice, aptitude is often less to be considered, than seasonableness. — Norm MacDonald
Ideas often flash across our minds more complete than we could make them after much labor. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Love of glory, fear of shame, greed for fortune, the desire to make life agreeable and comfortable, and the wish to depreciate others - all… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable. — B. C. Forbes
Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late. — Felix Frankfurter
The law often permits what honor prohibits. — Bernard-Joseph Saurin
There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire. — John Churton Collins
Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized upon by a madness which forced them to commit the very acts… — Rebecca West
Suspicion is most often useless pain. — Samuel Johnson
The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand -… — Thomas A. Edison
Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather. He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop. — Alfred Polgar

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