Capable Quote by Jane Porter

When authors and critics talk of the sublime, they see not how nearly it borders on the ridiculous.

— Thomas Paine

“Sublime Minds have noble visions ; Average Minds, by contrast, are trying to conformity.”

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

“Satisfy people's desire for the ridiculous and they will accept your idea of the sublime.”

— Maurice Willson Disher

Sublime in the highest style of intellectual beauty, intellect without effort, without suffering... not a feature is correct – but the whole effect is…

— Florence Nightingale

When a critic knows what she or he is looking at and writes revealingly about it, it's sublime.

— Charles Saatchi

Anything which elevates the mind is sublime. Greatness of matter, space, power, virtue or beauty, are all sublime.

— John Ruskin

“But it will not be so at their last meeting at the day of judgment; sinners, when they shall meet their minister before their…

— Jonathan Edwards

A sublime religion inevitably generates a strong feeling of guilt. There is an unavoidable contrast between loftiness of profession and imperfection of practice. And,…

— Eric Hoffer

“When an uninstructed multitude attempts to see with its eyes, it is exceedingly apt to be deceived. When, however, it forms its judgment, as…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Sure, it is weak and illiberal to speak slightingly of any considerable body of men; yet it so happens that the only judges I…

— Patrick O'Brian

“We are all bundles of wild and warrantless convictions, especially about one another, and when one gets an accidental glimpse of someone else's candid…

— Jacques Barzun

It is the habit of mediocre minds to condemn all that is beyond their grasp.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld