"However stupid a fools words may be, they……" — Nikolai Gogol
"However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man."
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Nikolai Gogol
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54 Quotes by Nikolai Gogol
Nikolai Gogol has 54 quotes on this site.
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Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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Ah, steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes? Is there a sensitive ear, alert as…
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Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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In the end dreams became his life, and his whole life thereafter took a strange turn: one might say he…
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We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than…
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The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more…
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Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
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They're thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good…
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At the end of the table, the secretary was reading the decision in some case, but in such a mournful…
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The more debris there is the more it will show the governor's activity.
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I saw that I'd get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.
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There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
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More Confound Quotes
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A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house.
— Aeschylus
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And one of the things that I learned was you can't generalise at all about a woman in a veil.…
— Geraldine Brooks
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Life may unfold chronologically for the body and for bureaucracies that keep track of such things as births, marriages, deaths,…
— Ariel Dorfman
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Tell the truth so as to puzzle and confound your adversaries.
— Henry Wotton
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Many who have never had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confound it with arithmetic, and consider it…
— Sofia Kovalevskaya
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A full-dressed ecclesiastic is a sort of go-cart of divinity; an ethical automaton. A clerical prig is, in general, a…
— William Hazlitt
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Newton's work on gravity led to the discovery of the Lagrange point, a place where opposing forces cancel one another…
— Nick Harkaway
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Amity Gaige has written a flawless book. It does not contain a single false note. Playful and inventive, SCHRODER movingly…
— Unknown Author
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The gods confound the man who first found out How to distinguish hours! Confound him, too, Who in this place…
— Plautus
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I undertake my scientific research with the confident assumption that the earth follows the laws of nature which God established…
— Unknown Author
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Vulgar and inactive minds confound familiarity with knowledge, and conceive themselves informed of the whole nature of things, when they…
— Samuel Johnson
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God, we are told, is willing to render himself inconsistent and ridiculous, to confound the curiosity of those whom, we…
— Baron d'Holbach
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