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Rather Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
- When we feel a strong desire to thrust our advice upon others, it is usually because we suspect their weakness; but we ought rather to…
- Theory is worth but little, unless it can explain its own phenomena, and it must effect this without contradicting itself; therefore, the facts are sometimes…
- Were we as eloquent as angels we still would please people much more by listening rather than talking.
- It is a mortifying truth, and ought to teach the wisest of us humility, that many of the most valuable discoveries have been the result…
- Nobility of birth does not always insure a corresponding unity of mind; if it did, it would always act as a stimulus to noble actions;…
- Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will…
- Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight
- Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity than straigthforward and simple integrity in another. A knave would rather quarrel with…
- The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.
- Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of goods.
- Two things, well considered, would prevent many quarrels: first, to have it well ascertained whether we are not disputing about terms, rather than things; and,…
- If you cannot avoid a quarrel with a blackguard, let your lawyer manage it, rather than yourself. No man sweeps his own chimney, but employs…
- As in the game of billiards, the balls are constantly producing effects from mere chance, which the most skillful player could neither execute nor foresee,…
- Fortune has been considered the guardian divinity of fools; and, on this score, she has been accused of blindness; but it should rather be adduced…
- Genius, when employed in works whose tendency it is to demoralize and to degrade us, should be contemplated with abhorrence rather than with admiration; such…
- There is no quality of the mind, or of the body, that so instantaneously and irresistibly captivates, as wit. An elegant writer has observed that…
- To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their…
- To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us -…
- Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.
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- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their… — Karen Armstrong
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong
- Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the… — Karen Armstrong
- The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further… — Neil Armstrong
- The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing. — Isaac Asimov