"The kings of modern thought are dumb." — Matthew Arnold
"The kings of modern thought are dumb."
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Matthew Arnold
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144 Quotes by Matthew Arnold
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom -…
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and…
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in…
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When I was a kid, among the other embarrassing things I would do, and there's a list of stupid things,…
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One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
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Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.
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Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
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Cookbooks have all become baroque and very predictable. I'm looking for something different. A lot of chefs' cookbooks are food…
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Consultants have credibility because they are not dumb enough to work at your company.
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I always wanted to be a hairdresser.
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Generally speaking, actors are allowed NO input. Actors are dumb.
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Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.
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We made too many wrong mistakes.
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You have to get the audience invested even if you're doing something that they think is dumb, it's kind of…
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So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?
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