Written Quotes
3817 Written quotes by 2570 unique authors
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The meaning of quality in photography's best pictures lies written in the language of vision. That language is learned by chance, not system.
— Walker Evans
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In contrast to the written account-which, depending on its complexity of thought, reference, and vocabulary, is pitched at a larger or smaller readership-a photograph has…
— Susan Sontag
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Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.
— Alexander Pope
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Thus there are two books from whence I collect my Divinity; besides that written one of God, another of his servant Nature, that universal and…
— Thomas Browne
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The fact of progress is written plain and large on the page of history; but progress is not a law of nature.
— H. A. L. Fisher
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Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who we used to…
— Andrzej Wajda
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Plato used the dialogue format because the exchange of views, the posing and answering of questions, showed that understanding is a living, dynamic process. He…
— John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough
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No poem was ever written by a drinker of water.
— Horace
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Taste and smell are often the beggars among our five senses - they leave no written language and therefore no standards other than wholly personal…
— Unknown Author
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The Bible is actually a library of books-some long, some short- written over hundreds of years by many authors. Behind each one, however, was [the]…
— Billy Graham
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Very effective way to do this with a bunch of second graders, is take a picture of The Lion King for instance, and a teacher…
— Michele Bachmann
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The IPCC 'policy summaries,' written by a small group of their political operatives, frequently contradict the work of the scientists that prepare the scientific assessments.…
— Peter Friedman
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A dream doesn't become a goal until it is written
— Edwin Louis Cole
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The simple act of writing down a goal and making a written plan for its accomplishment moves you to the top 3 percent.
— Brian Tracy
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Laws, written, if not on stone tables, yet on the azure of infinitude, in the inner heart of God's creation, certain as life, certain as…
— Thomas Carlyle
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Ultimately, Leibniz argued, there are only two absolutely simple concepts, God and Nothingness. From these, all other concepts may be constructed, the world, and everything…
— David Berlinski
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History is a story written by the finger of God.
— C.S. Lewis
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It is not the poet's business to save man's soul but to make it worth saving . . . However, few poets have written with…
— James Elroy Flecker
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Paul commands: 'Therefore, brethren, stand fast and hold the Traditions which you have been taught, whether by word or by our letter.' From this it…
— Saint John Chrysostom
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It is this one Spirit who makes it possible for an infant to be regenerated . . . when that infant is brought to baptism;…
— Saint Augustine
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