“Men sometimes die much earlier than they are burried.”
Romain Gary book Au-delà de cette limite votre ticket n'est plus valable
Source: Au-delà de cette limite votre ticket n'est plus valable
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“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
“Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.”
Emil M. Cioran book The Trouble With Being Born
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
“Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.”
No. 2 (24 March 1750) http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=Joh1Ram.sgm&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=2&division=div1 <br class="br">Source: The Rambler (1750–1752)
“There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.”
Ansel Adams (1902–1984) American photographer and environmentalist
“What better place to kill time than a library?”
Diane Setterfield book The Thirteenth Tale
Source: The Thirteenth Tale
“Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.”
Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907–1972) Polish-American Conservative Judaism Rabbi
“I'd rather eat nothing than eat a carrot.”
Marian Keyes Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married
Source: Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married
“Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.”
Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770–1827) German Romantic composer
Musik höhere Offenbarung ist als alle Weisheit und Philosophie.
http://books.google.com/books?id=W2k6AAAAcAAJ&q=%22Musik+h%C3%B6here+Offenbarung+ist+als+alle+Weisheit+und+Philosophie%22&pg=PA193#v=onepage
As reported by Bettina von Arnim in a letter to Goethe, 28 May 1810.
Goethe's Briefwechsel mit einem Kinde: Seinem Denkmal, Volume 2, Dümmler, 1835, p. 193.
Variant: Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
“A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.”
Un sot savant est sot plus qu'un sot ignorant.
Act IV, sc. iii
Les Femmes Savantes (1672)
“Sometimes a question can hurt more than an answer.”
Sarah Dessen book Along for the Ride
Source: Along for the Ride
“Sometimes questions can be more cruel than insults”
Jenny Han book To All the Boys I've Loved Before
Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before
“Chocolate is not a matter of life and death--it's more important than that.”
Jill Shalvis (1963) American writer
Source: At Last
“The human soul needs beauty more than bread.”
D.H. Lawrence (1885–1930) English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter
“False humility is more insulting than open pride!”
Brandon Mull (1974) American fiction writer
Source: Rise of the Evening Star
“You imagination is more important than your knowledge.”
Mike Murdock (1946) American televangelist
“Can there be any happiness greater than the happiness of salvation?”
Yann Martel book Life of Pi
Source: Life of Pi