Aphorism Quote by Mark Dvoretsky

An aphorism is an extreme synthesis of thesis and antithesis, theory and practice, it's a mixture of intuition and observation, hypothesis and illusions of…

— William C. Brown

An aphorism is not an aphorism unless you know what it means.

— Winston Churchill

Beautiful music itself is already an aphorism.

— Ilkin Santak

An aphorism is a generalization, therefore not modern.

— John Fowles

“The efforts of apologists to find genuinely distinguished modern scientists who are religious have an air of desperation, generating the unmistakably hollow sound or…

— Richard Dawkins

Aphorisms are literature's hand luggage. Light and compact, they fit easily into the overhead compartment of your brain.

— James Geary

I believe aphorisms are best when first read in the wild, free from the confines of any categories.

— James Geary

The history of Western science confirms the aphorism that the great menace to progress is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.

— Daniel J. Boorstin

There is nothing more difficult to define than an aphorism.

— Umberto Eco

An aphorism and its author aren't joined by a dash, but separated by it.

— John Alejandro King

No literature is sound, no philosophy of action workable, if it doesn't take a hard look at itself.

— John W. Campbell

Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies.

— John Milton