Rarer Quotes

64 quotes by 57 authors

The biggest breakthrough in the next 50 years will be the discovery of extraterrestrial life. We have been searching for it for 50 years and… — Freeman Dyson
Our Lord reserved to Himself certain things which He would do in due time in a manner outside the course and order of nature, so… — Saint Augustine
I eat meat, the rarer the better. — Dominique Swain
Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events. — John Drinkwater
Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage. — William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim
A broadsheet obituarist once pointed out to me that veteran soldiers die by rank. First to go are the generals, admirals and air marshals, then… — A. A. Gill
You should remember that though another may have more money, beauty, and brains than you, when it comes to the rarer spiritual values such as… — Archibald Rutledge
Nothing is rarer than real goodness. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is not often that nations learn from the past,even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it. — Henry A. Kissinger
The sweetest souls, like the sweetest flowers, soon canker in cities, and no purity is rarer there than the purity of delight. — Walter Savage Landor
Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men. — Ada Leverson
I have a true aversion to teaching. The perennial business of a professor of mathematics is only to teach the ABC of his science; most… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
[1.] And first I suppose that there is diffused through all places an aethereal substance capable of contraction & dilatation, strongly elastick, & in a… — Isaac Newton
Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is… — Bill Vaughan
Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But… — Frederick William Faber
Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer. — Jean de La Fontaine
Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing. — Jean de La Fontaine
In my experience, it is rarer to find a really happy person in a circle of millionaires than among vagabonds. — Thor Heyerdahl
It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the… — Thor Heyerdahl
There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. — Elbert Hubbard

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