Rare Quotes

1409 Rare quotes by 1067 unique authors

If you're anxious to shine in the high aesthetic line as a man of culture rare, you must get up all the germs of the… — W. S. Gilbert
Sanity is very rare; every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In rare moments of deep play, we can lay aside our sense of self, shed time's continuum, ignore pain, and sit quietly in the absolute… — Diane Ackerman
Television is a medium. It is neither rare nor well done. — Bill Moyers
The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost a miracle; it is a miracle.… — Simone Weil
Basketball is one of those rare opportunities where you can make a difference, not only for yourself, but for other people as well. — Bill Walton
Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare. — Harriet Martineau
It's actually a rare and precious thing to discover what it is you love to do, and I encourage you to remain unapologetically consumed by… — Jonathan Ive
Those who dive in the sea of affliction bring up rare pearls. — Charles Spurgeon
Observation is so wide awake, and facts are being so rapidly added to the sum of human experience, that it appears as if the theorizer… — Henry David Thoreau
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

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