Alexander Wilson Quotes

Think for thyself one good idea, but known to be thine own, is better than a thousand gleaned from fields by others sown.

Alexander Wilson

Alexander Wilson

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Actually, I had no idea what shooting hoops was or were. I thought dunking was something you did with a beignet and a cup of steaming coffee. I wasn't exactly sure what a Knick was.

Hamish Bowles
- Thought
- Idea
- Coffee
The Florida peninsula is, in fact, an emerging plateau, honeycombed with voids and vents, caves and underground waterways. Travelers on Interstate Highway I-75 have no idea that, beneath them, are cave labyrinths still being mapped by speleologists - 'cavers,' they prefer to be called.

Randy Wayne White
- Idea
- Fact
- Florida
What I want is to try and get across the idea that reading for pleasure is so beneficial. And turn children on who have maybe been switched off reading or never found a love of it in the first place.

Malorie Blackman
- Children
- Love
- Reading
The idea of 'advice,' in terms of telling people advice or asking people for advice, has become not comprehensible to me, to a certain degree, due to feeling, like, for something to be accurately defined as 'good' or 'bad,' I would want to know the context, goal, perspective for it.

Tao Lin
- People
- Goal
- Advice
Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.

Ugo Betti
- People
- Idea
- Nothing
Each is responsible for his own actions.

H. L. Hunt
- Own
- Actions
- Responsible