"We owe few of the rules of writing……" — Samuel Johnson

More Acuteness Quotes

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• What distinguishes the language of science from language as we ordinarily understand the word? ... What science strives for is… — Albert Einstein
• I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my… — Robert Burns
• Constitutions are not designed for metaphysical or logical subtleties, for niceties of expression, for critical propriety, for elaborate shades of… — Joseph Story
• That coarseness and strength combined with acuteness and inquisitiveness; that practical, inventive turn of mind, quick to find expedients; that… — Frederick Jackson Turner
• Lord, enlighten thou our enemies. Sharpen their wits, give acuteness to their perceptions, and consecutiveness and clearness to their reasoning… — John Stuart Mill
• Our people are slow to learn the wisdom of sending character instead of talent to Congress. Again and again they… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• All those years I fell for the great palace lie that grief should be gotten over as quickly as possible… — Anne Lamott
• Persons without education certainly do not want either acuteness or strength of mind in what concerns themselves, or in things… — William Hazlitt
• Thanks to the acuteness of his mind, he saw through the poverty of philosophical and Gnostic knowledge, and contemptuously rejected… — Carl Jung
• A critic recently described me, with deadly acuteness, as having 'a kindly dislike of my fellow-creatures.' Perhaps dread would have… — George Bernard Shaw
• And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense? --now, I… — Edgar Allan Poe

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