Audacity Quote by Hippocrates

“An end to timidity - the replacement of the philologically tentative by the lexicographically decisive." - on the making of the Oxford English Dictionary”

— Simon Winchester

Every man speaks and writes with intent to be understood; and it can seldom happen but he that understands himself, might convey his notions…

— Samuel Johnson

The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power

— Bertrand Russell

I believe that obstinacy, or the dread of control and discipline, arises not so much from self-willedness as from a conscious defect of voluntary…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The empiric easily degenerates into the quack. He does not know where his knowledge begins or leaves off, and so when he gets beyond…

— John Dewey

All discourse of which others cannot partake is not only an irksome usurpation of the time devoted to pleasure and entertainment, but, what never…

— Samuel Johnson

Some say knowledge is power, but that is not true. Character is power.

— Sathya Sai Baba

“They were two perfectly insignificant and incapable individuals, whose existence is only rendered possible through the high organization of civilized crowds. Few men realize…

— Joseph Conrad

The writer must be able to revel and roll in the abundance of words; he must know not only the direct but also the…

— Anonymous

Language must resound with all the harmonies of music. The writer must always, at all times, find the tremulous word which captures the thing…

— Knut Hamsun

In poetic thought, the role of the subconscious is played by euphony.

— Joseph Brodsky

“special" knowledge gives them a sense of power, control, status and/or monetary gain. For some, the need to belong is so powerful that they…

— Carol A Brown