Boast Quote by Elisabeth of Wied Download Open image “Tis the ignorant who boast.” — Elisabeth of Wied ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Boast Ignorance Ignorant Self confidence
You can boast about anything if it's all you have. Maybe the less you have, the more you are required to boast. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
It is a disgraceful thing to be ignorant. — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Copy Share Image
Your wisdom is creating your successes. Your ignorance is creating your failures. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ignorance is pitiful! If you are ignorant and stupid, you are sick - white, black, green, I don't care. — Willie Wells Copy Share Image
You can never make someone punctual who is not, or quick who is slow, or lively who wants to plod on carefully. I have… — Elisabeth of Wied Copy Share Image
One doesn't know one's self what grain one sows, that works on and on, through one and through many lives, transmitted from heart to… — Elisabeth of Wied Copy Share Image
I am quite above physical death and believe it to be only the birth throes for a much purer life in a much purer… — Elisabeth of Wied Copy Share Image
My greatest wish is to write in such a manner that all may think they have written it themselves. — Elisabeth of Wied Copy Share Image
Never can a room look comfortable without books ... Books ought to be scattered all over the house, even in the passages, in the… — Elisabeth of Wied Copy Share Image
[Written in 1901:] Nothing has been so deplorable for countries as centralization. I am afraid when I see Germany grow so powerful, and centralizing… — Elisabeth of Wied Copy Share Image
It seems enormous to me that we have the idea of eternity, of justice, of purity, of beauty, when everything that we see is… — Elisabeth of Wied Copy Share Image
It would be a piece of ingenuousness to accuse the man of today of his lack of moral code. The accusation would leave him… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Further conceive, I beg, that a stone, while continuing in motion, should be capable of thinking and knowing, that it is endeavoring, as far as it can, to continue to move. Such a stone, being conscious merely of its own endeavor and not at all indifferent, would believe itself to be completely free, and would think that it continued in… — Anonymous Copy Share
Boasting and bravado may exist in the breast even of the coward, if he is successful through a mere lucky hit; but a just… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much? — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope. — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order… — Horatio Nelson Copy Share Image
But thou art fair, and at thy birth, dear boy, Nature and Fortune join'd to make thee great: Of Nature's gifts thou mayst with… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Science appears but what in truth she is, Not as our glory and our absolute boast, But as a succedaneum, and a prop To… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image