Books Quote by Edward Slingerland

Your actions overshadow your words

— Melchor Lim

“Too much brightness blinds the eyes. Too much sound deafens the ears. Too much flavour ruins the tongue. Chasing desires to excess turns your…

— Laozi

“Our taste must always be, more or less, the victim of our limitations, but we should beware of glorying in it, and, above all,…

— Sir Walter Raleigh

One of the surest evidences of an elevated taste is the power of enjoying works of impassioned terrorism, in poetry, and painting. The man…

— Benjamin Haydon

Taste is, so to speak, the microscope of the judgment.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“It is well known, that, in all questions submitted to the understanding, prejudice is destructive of sound judgment, and perverts all operations of the…

— David Hume

In writing, as in life, faults are endured without disgust when they are associated with transcendent merit, and may be sometimes recommended to weak…

— Samuel Johnson

Cropped up emotions, can become tasteless words.

— Melchor Lim

“It was beyond imagining that bad font influences judgments of truth and improves cognitive performance, or that an emotional response to the cognitive ease…

— Daniel Kahneman

Feeling without judgment is a washy draught indeed; but judgment untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition

— Charlotte Bronte

“Too often we react emotionally, get despondent, and lose our perspective. All that does is turn bad things into really bad things. Unhelpful perceptions…

— Ryan Holiday

Errors of taste are very often the outward sign of a deep fault of sensibility.

— Jonathan Miller