"One cannot know what a man really is……" — Jane Austen
"One cannot know what a man really is by the end of a fortnight."
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691 Quotes by Jane Austen
Jane Austen has 691 quotes on this site.
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Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
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There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
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Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
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Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being…
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The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
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My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that…
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There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
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There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
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Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect…
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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
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A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
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A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
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We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know…
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We know the past but cannot control it. We control the future but cannot know it.
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What science cannot tell us, mankind cannot know.
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Joy is our goal, our destiny. We cannot know who we are except in joy. Not knowing joy, we do…
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Parents of handicapped children are occasionally embarrassed or hurt by others who awkwardly express sympathy but cannot know or appreciate…
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Tolstoi explains somewhere in his writings why, in his opinion, "Science for Science's sake" is an absurd conception. We cannot…
— Henri Poincare
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We are ignorant of the Beyond because this ignorance is the condition of our own life. Just as ice cannot…
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Just where death is expecting you is something we cannot know; so, for your part, expect him everywhere.
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If materialism is true, it seems to me that we cannot know that it is true. If my opinions are…
— John B. S. Haldane
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I conclude that, while it is true that science cannot decide questions of value, that is because they cannot be…
— Bertrand Russell
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It is not enough to say that we cannot know or judge because all the information is not in. The…
— John Steinbeck
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There are four great sciences, without which the other sciences cannot be known nor a knowledge of things secured ...…
— Roger Bacon
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