Thomas Carlyle Quotes
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
Thomas Carlyle
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Bravery is a mean state concerned with things that inspire confidence and with things fearful ... and leading us to choose danger and to face it, either because to do so is noble, or because not to do so is base. But to court death as an escape from poverty, or from love, or from some grievous pain, is no proof of bravery, but rather of cowardice.
Aristotle
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By far the best proof is experience.
Francis Bacon
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Reply on what constitutes scientific proof:"The question is much too difficult for me".
Albert Einstein
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To believe that what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Among the great men who have philosophized about [the action of the tides], the one who surprised me most is Kepler. He was a person of independent genius, [but he] became interested in the action of the moon on the water, and in other occult phenomena, and similar childishness.
Galileo Galilei
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And now the announcement of Watson and Crick about DNA. This is for me the real proof of the existence of God.
Salvador Dali
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The loveliest, sweetest flower that bloomed in paradise, and the first that died, has rarely blossomed since on mortal soil. It is so frail, so delicate, a thing, it is gone if it but look upon itself; and she who ventures to esteem it hers proves by that single thought she has it not.
Elizabeth Fry
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A one-hit wonder is a legend who stopped early.
Seth Godin
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The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of aggression, nor, finally and more plausibly, the serious economic and social dangers inherent in disarmament, but the simple fact that no substitute for this final arbiter in international affairs has yet appeared on the political scene.
Hannah Arendt
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No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
Thomas Carlyle
