Preferred Quotes
320 quotes by 292 authors
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Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
— Aristotle
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Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.
— Francis Bacon
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The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred.
— George Bancroft
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Growing up, I was the preferred hairstylist for all of my friends.
— Mary J. Blige
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The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows…
— Allan Bloom
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Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.
— Winston Churchill
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In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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I preferred the weapons of dialectic to all the other teachings of philosophy, and armed with these, I chose the conflicts of disputation rather than…
— Peter Abelard
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When I was a teenager, I really didn't like loud rock music. I listened to jazz and blues and folk music. I've always preferred acoustic…
— Ian Anderson
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When I was a young boy, I preferred cats to dogs. From the age of seven or eight onwards I just felt more comfortable with…
— Ian Anderson
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The condition of the most passionate enthusiast is to be preferred over the individual who, because of the fear of making a mistake, won't in…
— Thomas Carlyle
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We often experience more regret over the part we have left, than pleasure over the part we have preferred.
— Philibert Joseph Roux
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I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as a habit of mind. Mirth is short and…
— Joseph Addison
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We can invent as many theories we like, and any one of them can be made to fit the facts. But that theory is always…
— Albert Einstein
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Terrorism is the preferred weapon of weak and evil men.
— Ronald Reagan
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Creation,' in the ordinary sense of the word, is perfectly conceivable. I find no difficulty in conceiving that, at some former period, this universe was…
— Thomas Huxley
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My mother preferred trees to certain kinds of people. Increasingly, as I get older I have to admit that I occasionally understand her preference.
— Lucinda Roy
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The noble Lord, Lord Harrison, said, 'Fox hunting is cruel and I therefore want it banned.' He went on to discuss the option of controlling…
— David Verney, 21st Baron Willoughby de Broke
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Much as I admired the elegance of physical theories, which at that time geology wholly lacked, I preferred a life in the woods to one…
— John Tuzo Wilson
Who Wrote These Preferred Quotes
292 authors contributed a total of 320 Preferred Quotes, led by these top contributors: