Believed Quote by James Beattie Download Open image “Some deemed him wondrous wise, and some believed him mad.” — James Beattie ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Believed Deemed Him Mad Some Wise Wondrous
If he were a man of strong mind, it only gave him fits; but a person of mere average intellect it usually sent mad. — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
Not only was he not mad, but he was a musician, and my favorite men had always been musicians or writers or anything that… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
As soon as he ceased to be mad he became merely stupid. There are maladies we must not seek to cure because they alone… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
He knew that he was the stuff of which fanatics and madmen are made and that he had turned his destiny as if with… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“He had found in himself the perfect, undeniable case of insanity. He possessed wisdom, patience, tolerance, truthfulness, loyalty, and moral fortitude—all the qualities that… — Machado de Assis Copy Share Image
He had some measure of the infuriating trait that causes a young man to be a nonconformist for its own sake and found that… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
He was of an impressible nature, and lived a great deal in other people's opinions and feelings concerning himself... — George Eliot Copy Share Image
He could remember all about it now; the pitiful figure he must have cut; the absurd way in which he had gone and done… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
I saw how greatly he suffered the requirement of being clever. It separated him from his soul, and it didn't get him anything other… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
He thought of men like Hitler, Stalin, and Napoleon. All it took was a lot of seemingly decent people to put the wrong person… — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad? — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
He had long ago learned that society imposes insults that must be borne, comforted by the knowledge that in this world there comes a… — Mario Puzo Copy Share Image
“The aim of education should be to teach us how to think, rather than what to think” — James Beattie Copy Share Image
From labour health, from health contentment spring; contentment opes the source of every joy. — James Beattie Copy Share Image
In every age and every man there is something to praise as well as to blame. — James Beattie Copy Share Image
No jealousy their dawn of love overcast, nor blasted were their wedded days with strife; each season looked delightful as it past, to the… — James Beattie Copy Share Image
Ah, who can tell how hard it is to climb the steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar? — James Beattie Copy Share Image
At the close of the day when the hamlet is still, and mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove, when naught but the torrent is… — James Beattie Copy Share Image
Though my grandmother had picked up modern ideas in America, she still had some conflicting 19th-century Irish notions. She believed that daughters, educated though… — Rosemary Mahoney Copy Share Image
Alfred Nobel believed that social changes are brought about slowly, and sometimes by indirect means. — Bertha von Suttner Copy Share Image
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My life had been defined by the apartheid years. Now we were going into an era of democracy... and I believed that I didn't… — Athol Fugard Copy Share Image
On March 12, 2004, acting attorney general James B. Comey and the Justice Department's top leadership reached the brink of resignation over electronic surveillance… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
I never believed I'd have a six-pack, especially not at 35 years old. I always thought it was a genetic blessing. It's not. You… — Sullivan Stapleton Copy Share Image
There was a time when idealistic folksingers such as myself believed that Reality TV was a programming vogue that would peak and recede, leaving… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
I felt uneasy, but sometimes, like I said before, I believed in Col. North and there was a very solid and very valid reason… — Fawn Hall Copy Share Image
And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment… — Salmon P. Chase Copy Share Image
I always believed as a speechwriter that if you could persuade the president to commit himself to certain words, he would feel himself committed… — David Frum Copy Share Image
I used to sleep on the floor next to the bed, because I believed that I didn't even deserve a bed to sleep in.… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
I told my parents I was going to be a doctor and then a lawyer, but I never believed it and never tried. — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
