Omit Quotes

53 quotes by 44 authors

My goal is to omit everything superfluous so that the essential is shown to best possible advantage. — Dieter Rams
Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don't bewail and moan. Omit the negative propositions. Challenge us with incessant affirmatives. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The superior man honors his virtuous nature, and maintains constant inquiry and study, seeking to carry it out to its breadth and greatness, so as… — Confucius
It is an art of no little importance to administer medicines properly: but, it is an art of much greater and more difficult acquisition to… — Philippe Pinel
I shall omit former particulars, and begin with informing the Reader, that, in 1792, I was strangely visited, by day and night, concerning what was… — Joanna Southcott
...Omit nothing which can advance his work, and not blame others for the delay. — Vincent de Paul
Fig tree, how long it's been full meaning for me, the way you almost entirely omit to flower and into the seasonably-resolute fruit uncelebratedly thrust… — Rainer Maria Rilke
For what are the classics but the noblest thoughts of man? They are the only oracles which are not decayed, and there are such answers… — Henry David Thoreau
It is difficult to remember all, and ungracious to omit any. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
A cardinal rule of writing is never interrupt yourself to explain something. If you must bring up an obscure topic, drop informative hints about it… — Florence King
Published papers may omit important steps and the memory of men of science, even the greatest, is sadly fallible. — John Desmond Bernal
You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to… — Oliver Stone
When religion has said its last word, there is little that we need other than God Himself. The evil habit of seeking God-and effectively prevents… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
In our fine arts, not imitation, but creation is the aim... The details, the prose of nature, he should omit, and give us only the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
When thou dost tell another's jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need; Pick out of tales the mirth, but not the sin. — George Herbert
One of the most significant design principles is to omit the unimportant in order to emphasize the important. — Dieter Rams
General statements omit what we really want to know. Example: some horses run faster than others. — Mason Cooley
If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg… — Ernest Hemingway
Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else. — Henry David Thoreau
What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in. — Simone de Beauvoir

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