Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for. Socrates Greek Philosopher More Socrates Quotes 3
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for. Socrates Ancient Greek Philosopher More Socrates Quotes 3
There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true. Henry Fielding British Playwright More Henry Fielding Quotes 0
Mainly I've been back to my books and writings and being nice and quiet and lazy. As I'm writing this, the radio says there's a foot of snow falling on Long Island. I really love snow and wish I could take a long walk in it right now. Jack Kerouac American Poet More Jack Kerouac Quotes 0
Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, donated many of this writings to the University of Michigan. The pagers are an invaluable resource for students majoring in Crazy. Jimmy Fallon American Actor More Jimmy Fallon Quotes 0
Even now a team of linguists is at work translating Don Revie's writings on the game [of football] from the original gibberish into Arabic. Michael Parkinson British Writer More Michael Parkinson Quotes 0
Easy writings curse is hard reading. Richard Brinsley Sheridan Irish Playwright More Richard Brinsley Sheridan Quotes 0
These are the writings of a perverted monster who was sent out into the field unsupervised to be with alienated youth, with children. Roderick MacLeish More Roderick MacLeish Quotes 0
My father could have been deported because on his immigration application he said that he was a printer, obviously because he didn't want them to be checking his writings. Joe Eszterhas Hungarian Writer More Joe Eszterhas Quotes 0
There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true. Francois Fenelon French Clergyman More Francois Fenelon Quotes 0
I got to read some writings by serial killers, and they got inside my head. They were quite disturbing. I read disturbing stuff about that very detached way of manipulating people to do things. Ralph Fiennes British Actor More Ralph Fiennes Quotes 0
When Maurice touched a keyboard, it was like something from a movie, magical. He would always give you something from a movie, and you'd go, what did you just play... immediately inspirational writings, amazing. That's what we're going to miss. Robin Gibb English Musician More Robin Gibb Quotes 0
A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can. Edith Hamilton American Writer More Edith Hamilton Quotes 0
It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on. Jack Kerouac American Novelist More Jack Kerouac Quotes 0
Writings scatter to the winds blank checks in an insane charge. And were they not such flying leaves, there would be no purloined letters. Jacques Lacan French Psychologist More Jacques Lacan Quotes 0
The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers. Bryan Magee British Author More Bryan Magee Quotes 0
A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness. Friedrich Nietzsche German Philosopher More Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes 0
For if the mystery concealed of old is made manifest to the Apostles through the prophetic writings, and if the prophets, being wise men, understood what proceeded from their own mouths, then the prophets knew what was made manifest to the Apostles. Origen Theologian More Origen Quotes 0
The apostolic writings are of three kinds: historical, didactic, and prophetic. Philip Schaff Swiss Theologian More Philip Schaff Quotes 0
If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly. Alan Watts English Philosopher More Alan Watts Quotes 0
Accursed who brings to light of day the writings I have cast away. William Butler Yeats Irish Poet More William Butler Yeats Quotes 0
The assertion of failure coming from such persons does not mean that Mr. Mill failed to promote the practical success of those objects the advocacy of which forms the chief feature of his political writings. Millicent Fawcett British Activist More Millicent Fawcett Quotes 0
And truly, when you look at the Constitution and our founding fathers and their writings, the things that made this country great, you might draw those conclusions: That they were conservative. They were fiscally conservative and socially conservative. Sharron Angle American Politician More Sharron Angle Quotes 0
To be awarded a prize which takes its name from an illustrious Dutchman who at the same time was a great citizen of Europe and through his writings did so much to open up our modern world of sensibility and thought is indeed a most signal honour. John G. D. Clark More John G. D. Clark Quotes 0