Than Quotes
17300 quotes by 8735 authors
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Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we…
— Isaac Asimov
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The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
— Isaac Asimov
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He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that…
— Isaac Asimov
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Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own…
— Francis of Assisi
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That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it to us holds.
— Mary Astell
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People are smarter than you might think.
— John Astin
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When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing on chat shows…
— Rowan Atkinson
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Get that right, then- if you get the quality right, then the marketability or whatever; your ability to sell videos or your ability to earn…
— Rowan Atkinson
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A lot of these kids I think are more content just to be on Facebook and the computer than they are to actually go out.…
— Dave Attell
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It is that range of biodiversity that we must care for - the whole thing - rather than just one or two stars.
— David Attenborough
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I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.
— Chinua Achebe
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I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours of arrival.
— David Attenborough
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I'm luckier than my grandfather, who didn't move more than five miles from the village in which he was born.
— David Attenborough
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It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us about the first…
— David Attenborough
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Social media is called social media for a reason. It lends itself to sharing rather than horn-tooting.
— Margaret Atwood
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I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases which appeal more…
— Margaret Atwood
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The object is very clear in the fight against racism; you have reasons why you're opposed to it. But when you're writing a novel, you…
— Margaret Atwood
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Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.
— Dean Acheson
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I'd rather have huge success and huge failures than travel in the middle of the road.
— Kevyn Aucoin
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It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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