Samuel Daniel Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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Rushing to war is not a wise course of action.
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I read books. Remember those? I read them, on paper.
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I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit. Reading keeps me grounded. I came from a very middle class family – poor, in fact.
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There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.
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The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible.
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Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.
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I was about 11 or 12 when I began to pick up my mother's books.
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The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.
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I steer clear of books with ugly covers. And ones that are touted as 'sweeping,' 'tender' or 'universal.'
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Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion.
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I don't know what I'm qualified to do, film-wise... So it's really down to a director or a casting director to find something that they think I could do.
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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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I wrote all four of my books at Starbucks.
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Travel teaches as much as books.
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The team is in great shape, the coaching staff, the front office. Just things feel really good chemistry-wise across the board.
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My daughter loves singing above all else.
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I do not carry such information in my mind since it is readily available in books. ...The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.
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Since I was trying so hard to make books lead my life, I didn’t want to read them and then just put them back on the shelf and say, “good book,” as if I was patting a good dog. I wanted books to change me, and I wanted to write books that would change others.
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The whole sex symbol or babe thing doesn't bother me.
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While my opponent slanders you as deplorable... I call you hard-working, American patriots.
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I wish to show those who deny us Patriotism that we know how to die for our country and convictions.
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The wise are above books.
