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Thomas Fuller:Choose a wife rather by your ear


Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.
by Thomas Fuller


Baltasar Gracian:Aspire rather to be a hero than


Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.
by Baltasar Gracian


Plato:Knowledge without justice ought to be


Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.
by Plato


Sydney Buchman:If there were no mystery left to


If there were no mystery left to explore life would get rather dull, wouldn’t it?
by Sydney Buchman


Albert Einstein:Try not to become a man of


Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value
by Albert Einstein


Lyndon Baines Johnson:I'd rather give my life


I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.
by Lyndon Baines Johnson


Henry David Thoreau:I would rather sit on a


I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
by Henry David Thoreau


Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.:A woman never forgets


A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.
by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.


Joseph Wood Krutch:Cats are rather delicate


Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many ailments, but I never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.
by Joseph Wood Krutch


John Stuart Mill:I have learned to seek my


I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
by John Stuart Mill


Max Planck:A new scientific truth does not


A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
by Max Planck


George Hegel:Since philosophy is the exploration


Since philosophy is the exploration of the rational, it is for that very reason the apprehension of the present and the actual, not the erection of a beyond, supposed to exist, God knows where, or rather which exists, and we can perfectly well say where, namely in the error of a one-sided, empty, ratiocination.
by George Hegel


Francis Bacon:The way of fortune is like the


The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.
by Francis Bacon


Phillip Slater:Change can take place only when


Change can take place only when liberal and radical pressures are both strong. Intelligent liberals have always recognized the debt they owe to radicals, whose existence permits liberals to push further than they would otherwise have dared, all the while posing as compromisers and mediators. Radicals, however, have been somewhat less sensible of their debt to liberals, partly because of the rather single-minded discipline radicals are almost forced to maintain, plagued as they always are by liberal backsliding and timidity on the one hand and various forms of self-destructiveness and romantic posing on the other.... Liberal reforms and radical change are thus complementary rather than antagonistic. Together they make it possible continually to test the limits of what can be done. Liberals never know whether the door is unlocked because they are afraid to try it. Radicals, on the other hand, miss many opportunities for small advances because they are unwilling to settle for so little.
by Phillip Slater


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