Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle Quotes
True philosophers are like elephants, who when walking never placetheir second footontheground untilthefirst is steady.Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
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Laura's [my sister] rooting for her brother. She'd better. She's known him a lot longer than me.
Aaron James "A. J." Hawk -
I think mischievous people always there, ... Some kind of perfect world, that is impossible. Accept that reality. (For) those people who have genuine concern about humanity, make some effort-better than none.
Dalai Lama -
I've been so fortunate because I never really had ups and downs as far as my career. Ninety-nine percent of the time, I've been sold out all over the world.
Tony Bennett -
Dogma? Faith? These are the right and left pillars of every soul-crushing theology. Theosophists have no dogmas, exact no blind faith.
H. P. Blavatsky -
The solemn fop; significant and budge; A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge
William Cowper -
Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, To peep at such a world; to see the stir Of the Great Babel, and not feel the crowd.
William Cowper
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I wear sunglasses because of the glare of spotlights. I wear gloves because it is very cold.
Vincent Tan -
Imagine the world of mobile based on Nokia and Motorola if Apple had not been restarted by a missionary entrepreneur named Steve Jobs who cared more for his vision than being tactical and financial.
Vinod Khosla -
If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else.
Confucius -
To attempt to write seriously is always, I feel, to fail - the disjunction between my beautifully sonorous, accurate and painfully affecting mental content, and the leaden, halting sentences on the page always seems a dreadful falling short.
Will Self -
Many religious people are deeply suspicious. They seem, for purely religious purposes, of course, to know more about iniquity than the unregenerate.
Rudyard Kipling -
Coming off the last turn, my thoughts changed from 'One more try...one more try...one more try...' to 'I can win! I can win! I can win!
Billy Mills
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Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.
Wallace Stevens -
Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
Epictetus -
This principle of nature being very remote from the conceptions of Philosophers, I forbore to describe it in that book, least I should be accounted an extravagant freak and so prejudice my Readers against all those things which were the main designe of the book.
Isaac Newton -
Sydney Smith playfully says that common sense was invented by Socrates, that philosopher having been one of its most conspicuous exemplars in conducting the contest of practical sagacity against stupid prejudice and illusory beliefs.
Edwin Percy Whipple -
True philosophers are like elephants, who when walking never placetheir second footontheground untilthefirst is steady.
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle