As the biggest library, if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast
amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller
amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.
View quotes by Arthur SchopenhauerThe
amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the
amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.
View quotes by John Stuart MillEccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the
amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the
amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.
View quotes by John Stuart MillThe art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible
amount of feathers with the smallest possible
amount of hissing.
View quotes by Jean Baptiste ColbertI must say that I do wrestle with the
amount of money I make, but at the end of the day what am I gonna say? I took less money so Rupert Murdoch could have more?
View quotes by Tom HanksNo
amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred of the Tory party. So far as I am concerned, they are lower than vermin.
View quotes by Aneurin BevanThey say a reasonable
amount o' fleas is good fer a dog - keeps him from broodin' over bein' a dog, mebbe. (David Harum 1898)
View quotes by Edward Noyes WestcottThe most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the
amount of security enjoyed by minorities.
View quotes by Lord ActonHow can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you
amount to.
View quotes by Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheTalent isn't genius, and no
amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a commonplace dauber, so I don't intend to try any more.
View quotes by Louisa May AlcottYou can judge your age by the
amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.
View quotes by Pearl BuckA Thaum is the basic unit of magical strength. It has been universally established as the
amount of magic needed to create one small white pigeon or three normal-sized billiard balls.
View quotes by Terry PratchettMen do not understand books until they have a certain
amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
View quotes by Ezra PoundThis unusual and highly successful species spends a great deal of time examining his higher motives and an equal
amount of time ignoring his fundamental ones.
View quotes by Desmond MorrisA certain
amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.
View quotes by Lewis MumfordSociety can exist only on the basis that there is some
amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.
View quotes by Lin YutangI'm a bit down. Liza Minelli and David Gest, I don't know how it didn't work out. How can a man who likes other men and a woman who drinks not get along? The interesting thing is this - there is no conceivable
amount of money worth telling the world that you were beaten up by Liza Minelli.
View quotes by Jon StewartWhat normally happens when you write something is that for a certain
amount of time you're absolutely convinced that it's the best thing in the world, that nobody else could possible have done it.
View quotes by Joe StillmanThere is no cannibalism in the British navy, absolutely none, and when I say none, I mean there is a certain
amount.
View quotes by Graham ChapmanI don't take myself terribly seriously. It's why I can be incredibly honest about my life. My problems aren't so different from anybody else. I believe that everybody comes from pain and a certain
amount of dysfunction
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