Able Quote by Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

The man of petty ambition if invited to dinner will be eager to be set next his host.

— Theophrastus

“He began to view writing as a petty ambition, a frivolous and indulgent whim, creativity itself as the pathology of the very young or…

— Galt Niederhoffer

Tamil people are generally considered very intelligent. But there, politics runs in a different way. Movie stars have a larger-than-life image in Tamil Nadu,…

— Jaggi Vasudev

I want to make clothes that are beautiful of course, but also clothes that are interesting and considered and intelligent and not out of…

— Miuccia Prada

Sheep are not considered the most intelligent animals but British scientist say humans may have underestimated the woolly creatures. In fact, the British scientific…

— Jon Stewart

“Just as hunters will mount the heads of the kills, white people need to let people know that they have made their way to…

— Christian Lander

I love everything about Philadelphia, and its food is like the city itself: real-deal, hearty, and without pretension. We've always had an underdog vibe…

— Lisa Scottoline

This man, who for twenty-five years has been reading and writing about art, and in all that time has never understood anything about art,…

— Anton Chekhov

... semantics ... is a sober and modest discipline which has no pretensions of being a universal patent-medicine for all the ills and diseases…

— Alfred Tarski

“A man who writes a book, thinks himself wiser or wittier than the rest of mankind; he supposes that he can instruct or amuse…

— Samuel Johnson

The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody.

— Booth Tarkington

Humans — who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals — have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain.…

— Carl Sagan