Eagerness Quote by Molière

“He was sometimes stern but more often kindly---just according to his lights, but he saw the world in simple shades of black and white,…

— John Christopher

“Impatience makes fools of clever men...”

— R. A. Scotti

“A gentleman sitting in spectacles before an old ledger, and writing down pitiful remembrances of his own condition, is a quaint and ridiculous object.”

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“Foolish men always believe that a little knowledge will give them control over the world, but it is no more than a display of…

— J. P. Vinluca

“The more we train a man to labor, deliberate, dictate and demand over the inconsequential, the less capable his mind becomes of holding that…

— Geoffrey Wood

“it is so inevitable that men will be fools that it is only by another shift of folly that one might not be”

— Pascal

“tis the part of a truly prudent man not to be wise beyond his condition, but either to take no notice of what the…

— Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

“What interest, in fact, can this depressing work have for the worker, when he knows that the fate awaiting him from the cradle to…

— Pyotr Kropotkin

“Like a certain philosopher I would, upon my soul, have all young men from eighteen to twenty-five kept under barrels; seeing how often, in…

— Thomas Hardy

“thereby gain much leisure, and save much trouble, and therefore at every action a man must privately by way of admonition suggest unto himself,…

— Marcus Aurelius

“One that has well digested his knowledge both of books and men, has little enjoyment but in the company of a few select companions.…

— David Hume

“I consider that a man’s brain is originally like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you…

— Arthur Conan Doyle