Remoter Quotes

12 quotes by 12 authors

The exercise of voluntary attention in the schoolroom must therefore be counted one of the most important points of training that take place there; and… — William James
No very deep knowledge of economics is usually needed for grasping the immediate effects of a measure; but the task of economics is to foretell… — Ludwig von Mises
The human mind has a natural tendency to explore what has passed in distant ages in scenes with which it is familiar: hence the taste… — William Buckland
Antiquity! thou wondrous charm, what art thou? that being nothing art everything? When thou wert, thou wert not antiquity - then thou wert nothing, but… — Charles Lamb
The science of constructing a commonwealth or renovating it, or reforming it, is...not to be taught a priori...That which in the first instance is prejudicial… — Edmund Burke
The true enjoyments must be spontaneous and compulsive and look to no remoter end. — C.S. Lewis
Those who have past much of their lives in this great city, look upon its opulence and its multitudes, its extent and variety, with cold… — Samuel Johnson
The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion; the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, An appetite; a feeling and a… — William Wordsworth
As time goes on, new and remoter aspects of truth are discovered which can seldom be fitted into creeds that are changeless. — Clarence Day
There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It… — Thomas Hardy
I found a Bill Evans record in the bookcase and was listening to it while drying my hair when I realized that it was the… — Haruki Murakami
It is something great and greatening to cherish an ideal; to act in the light of truth that is far-away and far above; to set… — Joshua Chamberlain

Who Wrote These Remoter Quotes

12 authors contributed a total of 12 Remoter Quotes as follows: