Michel de Montaigne Quotes
Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.Michel de Montaigne
Quotes to Explore
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Arthur Conan Doyle was entranced by the notion of a brilliant detective who can deduce everything a stranger has been up to from the merest clue, and yet can't have a trusting relationship with his closest friend.
Rafael Yglesias -
As we get more transparent with data sets about infrastructure and systems management, I have a feeling we'll see big changes in how we think about complexity and our relationship to our actions.
Aaron Koblin -
All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities... the list goes on!
Frances O'Grady -
True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
F. H. Bradley -
Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.
Nancy Pelosi -
Software-industry battles are fought by highly paid and out-of-shape nerds furiously pounding computer keyboards while they guzzle diet Coke. The stakes aren't very dramatic. Life? Liberty? The pursuit of happiness? Nope, it's about stock options.
Nathan Myhrvold
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You walk past people in streets, or they serve you in shops, and you know nothing about the horrors they may be living with.
Paddy Considine -
The Founders believed liberty came directly from God. With their knowledge of Scripture, they knew each child was made in the image of God. That is why everyone had dignity, value and worth.
Gary Bauer -
To suggest that a Muslim cannot think for himself sounds to me very much like an incident of anti-Muslim bigotry.
Maajid Nawaz -
Who is ready to settle for five minutes when three hours does nicely?
Jackie Collins -
It's like the American democratic system. When you vote, even if your candidate doesn't win, you accept that democracy was in action. When people participate in a Tezos network, they're accepting that the democratic vote of the other coin holders will govern the way the protocol moves.
Olaf Carlson-Wee -
A Reagan appointee, Justice Kennedy is no liberal, as he has shown on issues from affirmative action to corporate campaign spending. But he has repeatedly sided with gay litigants before the court.
Adam Cohen
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Everybody needs somebody.
Mahalia Jackson -
I never think about what others are doing. I do a film for myself, not others.
Randeep Hooda -
I have such pride in furthering the American musical and using it as a way to tell story.
Rachel Bloom -
In today's life, the world belongs only to the stupid, the insensitive and the agitated. The right to live and triumph is now conquered almost by the same means by which you conquer internment in an asylum: the inability to think, amorality and hiperexcitation.
Fernando Pessoa -
Bach wrote on the title page of his Orgelbüchlein: 'To the glory of the most high God, and that my neighbour may be benefited thereby.' That is what I would have liked to say about my work.
Ludwig Wittgenstein -
I've got to literally write my own ticket.
Kay Cannon
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This is love that surrounds, only a fool without wisdom can see. Blind as I am in your eyes, my lady of dreams.
John Roy Anderson Yes -
You can never learn anything that you did not already know.
Aristotle -
Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.
Sophocles -
Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.
Michel de Montaigne