Universal Quotes

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A writer is justly called 'universal' when he is understood within the limits of his civilization, though that be bounded by a country or an… — George Edward Woodberry
It seems to me that the most universal revolutionary wish now or ever is a wish for heaven, a wish by a human being to… — Kurt Vonnegut
The impulse to mar and to destroy is as ancient and almost as nearly universal as the impulse to create. The one is an easier… — Joseph Wood Krutch
A universal feeling, whether well or ill founded, cannot be safely disregarded. — Abraham Lincoln
Many teenagers are tormented by terrors they deem private and personal. They do not know that their anxieties and doubts are universal. — Haim Ginott
If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment, the opportunity… — Edgar Allan Poe
I think, above all, the characters in my novels feel universal to the readers. — Nicholas Sparks
Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love; these are their universal characteristics. — Lord Chesterfield
The spirit of Greece, passing through and ascending above the world, hath so animated universal nature, that the very rocks and woods, the very torrents… — Walter Savage Landor
The free system of government we have established is so congenial with reason, with common sense, and with a universal feeling, that it must produce… — James Madison
I have all my life been on my guard against the information conveyed by the sense of hearing -- it being one of my earliest… — Mary Wortley Montagu
Paying attention and awareness are universal capacities of human beings. — Jon Kabat-Zinn
The masses are the material of democracy, but its form-that is to say, the laws which express the general reason, justice, and utility-can only be… — Henri Frederic Amiel
Exporting Church employees to Latin America masks a universal and unconscious fear of a new Church. North and South American authorities, differently motivated but equally… — Ivan Illich
As the language of the face is universal, so 'tis very comprehensive; no laconism can reach it: 'Tis the short hand of the mind, and… — Jeremy Collier
Shakespeare is universal. — Harold Bloom
Each of us must make our own true way, and when we do, that way will express the universal way. — Shunryu Suzuki
The old man, especially if he is in society in the privacy of his thoughts, though he may protest the opposite, never stops believing that,… — Giacomo Leopardi
A princely marriage is the brilliant edition of a universal fact, and, as such, it rivets mankind. — Walter Bagehot
I see the creative accomplishments of which highly gifted humans are capable as special cases of the universal creative process, that game played by everyone… — Konrad Lorenz

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