Rare Quotes

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We have three approaches at our disposal: the observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation serves to assemble the data, reflection to synthesise them and… — John Dewey
Sincerity is a great but rare virtue, and we pardon to it much complaining, and the betrayal of many weaknesses. — Henry David Thoreau
Occasions are rare; and those, who know how to seize upon them, are rarer. — Josh Billings
Listening is totally different from hearing. Hearing, anybody who is not deaf can do. Listening is a rare art, one of the last arts. Listening… — Rajneesh
I don't have to tell you how fragile this precious gift of freedom is. Every time we hear, watch, or read the news, we are… — Ronald Reagan
Rare is the man who suffers no remorse as he passes from the state of confidant to that of rival. — Honore de Balzac
If we slide into one of those rare moments of military honesty, we realize that the technical demands of modern warfare are so complex a… — Ernest K. Gann
At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities.... — Lord Acton
A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable. — Thomas Jefferson
The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Every one will be something worth while, something rare, something perfect. — Wallace D. Wattles
True science is distinctively the study of useless things. For the useful things will get studied without the aid of scientific men. To employ these… — Charles Sanders Peirce
The noble science of Geology loses glory from the extreme imperfection of the record. The crust of the earth with its embedded remains must not… — Charles Darwin
Science would be ruined if (like sports) it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the rules of competition… — Benoit Mandelbrot
In the last two months I have been very busy with my own mathematical speculations, which have cost me much time, without my having reached… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
Historians desiring to write the actions of men, ought to set down the simple truth, and not say anything for love or hatred; also to… — Walter Raleigh
Rich as we are in biography, a well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one; and there are certainly many more men whose… — Thomas Carlyle
Wanting to work is so rare a merit, that it should be encouraged. — Abraham Lincoln
Extemporaneous speaking should be practised [sic] and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other… — Abraham Lincoln
The more your meditation goes deep, the less and less you will feel the burden of the mind. The more and more meditation goes deep,… — Rajneesh

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