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Their Own Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
- Professors in every branch of the sciences, prefer their own theories to truth: the reason is that their theories are private property, but truth is…
- It has been observed that a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant will see farther than the giant himself; and the moderns, standing…
- There are only two things in which the false professors of all religions have agreed--to persecute all other sects and to plunder their own.
- Princes rule the people, and their own passions rule Princes; but Providence can over-rule the whole, and draw the instruments of his inscrutable purposes from…
- False reasoners are often best confuted by giving them the full swing of their own absurdities.
- 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…
- Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the…
More Their Own Quotes
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and… — Mary Astell
- People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own… — Chinua Achebe
- I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own. — Margaret Atwood
- Younger people have greatest fears. Why is that? Because they don't know the plot. They don't know their own individual plot... they… — Margaret Atwood
- The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree;… — Jane Austen
- Each one of us, and, indeed, all those who aspire to national leadership must bring their own visions, views and styles to… — Ibrahim Babangida
- Kids don't go out and buy CDs, they make their own, they download them from the Internet. — Sebastian Bach
- People confuse compassion with government being compassionate with other people's money versus people being compassionate with their own money. — Michele Bachmann
- What makes me furious, not just because we're in an interview, but I don't like when writers take your words and put… — Erykah Badu