"It may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity……" — Edgar Allan Poe
"It may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve."
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Edgar Allan Poe
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323 Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe has 323 quotes on this site.
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The goodness of the true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability.
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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it…
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... -ev'n with us the breath Of Science dims the mirror of our joy...
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A poem in my opinion, is opposed to a work of science by having for its immediate object, pleasure, not…
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As the strong man exults in his physical ability, delighting in such exercises as call his muscles into action, so…
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Grammar is the analysis of language.
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It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application,…
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If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion,…
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The analytical power should not be confounded with simple ingenuity; for while the analyst is necessarily ingenious, the ingenious man…
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Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem.
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Coincidences, in general, are great stumbling blocks in the way of that class of thinkers who have been educated to…
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Who's to say that there is any more support for Freud's psychoanalytic concept of the superego than there is for…
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When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood.…
— Hannah Arendt
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It is sometimes asserted that a surgical operation is or should be a work of art ... fit to rank…
— Wilfred Trotter
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In point of fact, no conclusive disproof of a theory can ever be produced; for it is always possible to…
— Karl Popper
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It's only merit was in being the first publication which carried the claim of our rights their whole length, and…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The elementary parts of all tissues are formed of cells in an analogous, though very diversified manner, so that it…
— Theodor Schwann
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Since Christ Himself said in reference to the bread: "This is My Body," who will dare remain hesitant? And since…
— Cyril of Jerusalem
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There have been many authorities who have asserted that the basis of science lies in counting or measuring, i.e. in…
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When man learns to respect even the smallest being of creation...nobody has to teach him to love his fellow man.…
— Albert Schweitzer
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The first and probably most fundamental aspect of this crisis is that we are now close to the commodification of…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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To those critics who see capitalism as a system of inegalitarian, oppressive structures, its defenders have vaunted its ability to…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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Forgotten were the elementary rules of logic, that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and that what can be asserted without…
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