"Written truth is four-dimensional. If we consult it……" — Robert Grudin
"Written truth is four-dimensional. If we consult it at the wrong time, or read it at the wrong place, it is as empty and shapeless as a dress on a hook."
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Robert Grudin
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35 Quotes by Robert Grudin
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The future is like the daytime moon, a diffident but faithful companion, so elegant as to be almost invisible, an…
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Fast drivers can see no further than slow drivers, but they must look further down the road to time their…
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The happy individual is able to renew daily and with full consciousness all the basic expressions of human identity: work,…
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True intimacy is a human constant. People of all types find it equally hard to achieve, equally precious to hold.…
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Free men and women... can think across time, viewing their own lives, inclusive of past, present, and future, as architectural…
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That morning I experienced vividly, if almost subliminally, the reality of change itself: how it fools our sentinels and undermines…
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Happiness may well consist primarily of an attitude toward time.
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At pains to define liberty, that most resolute of indefinables, our minds fall back on spatial images; on birds, sailboats,…
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Plans made swiftly and intuitively are likely to have flaws. Plans made carefully and comprehensively are sure to.
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We struggle with, agonize over and bluster heroically about the great questions of life when the answers to most of…
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If the estimated age of the cosmos were shortened to seventy-two years, a human life would take about ten seconds.…
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The goal of discoverers is not to outdistance their peers, but to transcend themselves.
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More Consult Quotes
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one of 135 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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Consult: To seek approval for a course of action already decided upon.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home…
— Dale Carnegie
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You know, many people have said that I'm on the edge and I'm maverick for some of the big operations…
— Benjamin Carson
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The type of leukemia that I am dealing with is treatable. So if I do what my doctors tell me…
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.
— Alexander Pope
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And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend.
— John Milton
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Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your…
— Seneca the Younger
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For two thousand years Christianity has been telling us: life is death, death is life; it is high time to…
— Remy de Gourmont
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Science can tell us what exists; but to compare the worths, both of what exists and of what does not…
— William James
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There are four types of men in this world: 1. The man who knows, and knows that he knows; he…
— Solomon Ibn Gabirol
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