Readily Quotes

329 Readily quotes by 280 unique authors

Miracles are propitious accidents, the natural causes of which are too complicated to be readily understood. — George Santayana
Partisanship is our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is our duty to be on one or… — James Harvey Robinson
Men who have flattered themselves into this opinion of their own abilities, look down on all who waste their lives over books, as a race… — Samuel Johnson
The typical citizen drops down to a lower level of mental performance as soon as he enters the political field. He argues and analyzes in… — Joseph A. Schumpeter
Divide the world into regional groups as a transitional stage to world government. Populations will more readily abandon their national loyalty to a vague regional… — Joseph Stalin
They that go down to the sea in ships' see strange things, but what they tell is oft-times stranger still. A faculty for romancing is… — Unknown Author
The artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help him or advise… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What we wish, that we readily believe. — Demosthenes
The enormity of the universe revealed by science cannot readily be grasped by the human brain, but the music of The Planets enables the mind… — Gustav Holst
Naturally, business and pleasure can be readily combined, but a certain balance should exist, and the latter should not predominate over the former. — Fredrik Bajer
So, as you can readily see from what I have said thus far, a creative, active, sensitive, accurate, empathic, nonjudgmental listening is for me terribly… — Carl Rogers
It has been demonstrated that a species of penicillium produces in culture a very powerful antibacterial substance which affects different bacteria in different degrees. Generally… — Alexander Fleming
Every issue of the paper presents an opportunity and a duty to say something courageous and true; to rise above the mediocre and conventional; to… — Joseph Pulitzer
Inspiration springs more readily from knowledge than from ignorance. — Horace Kallen
We will only begin to forgive when we can look upon the wrongdoers as ourselves, neither better nor worse. We need to remember that we… — Leo Buscaglia
Men are more readily contented with no intellectual light than with a little; and wherever they have been taught to acquire some knowledge in order… — Charles Caleb Colton
The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater. — Robertson Davies
Place has always been important to me, and one thing today's Chicago exudes, as it did in 1893, is a sense of place. I fell… — Erik Larson
In some century to come, when the school children will whistle popular tunes in quarter-tones--when the diatonic scale will be as obsolete as the pentatonic… — Charles Ives
Some have an idea that the reason we in this country discard things so readily is because we have so much. The facts are exactly… — Alfred P. Sloan

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