Stronger than pain quotes (page 379) | Quotes of famous people

“Mankind loves misterys--a hole in the ground, excites mor wonder than a star in the heavens.”

Josh Billings (1818–1885) American humorist

Josh Billings: His Works, Complete (1873)

“I appreciate an old man's cautious opinion more than the valor of a young man.”

Ali book Nahj al-Balagha

Nahj al-Balagha

“It is far more arrogant to profess intuitive knowledge of the sacred than scientific knowledge of the tangible.”

James K. Morrow (1947) (1947-) science fiction author

Source: The Wine of Violence (1981), Chapter 4 (p. 44)

“To reign is worth ambition though in Hell:
Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.”

John Milton book Paradise Lost

i.262-263
Paradise Lost (1667)

“In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.”

Colette (1873–1954) 1873-1954 French novelist: wrote Gigi

The Photographer’s Wife
Gigi (1945)

“An artist cannot be partially sincere any more than art can be an approximation of beauty.”

Andrei Tarkovsky book Sculpting in Time

Source: Sculpting in Time (1986), p. 47

“… you need more than luck to navigate successfully through a thousand sieves in succession.”

Richard Dawkins (1941) English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author

River out of Eden (1995)

“An unloving heart can no more understand a love-filled speaker than a German an Italian.”

Henry Suso (1295–1366) Dominican friar and mystic

Quoted in Karl An unloving heart can no more understand a love-filled speaker than a German an Italian Bihlmeyer, Heinrich Seuse. Deutsche Schriften, Stuttgart 1907, p. 199

“He would rather burst a city gate than find it open to admit him.”
Non tam portas intrare patentis quam fregisse juvat.

Marcus Annaeus Lucanus book Pharsalia

Book II, line 443 (tr. J. D. Duff).
Pharsalia

“We are made ridiculous less by our defects than by the affectation of qualities which are not ours.”

John Lancaster Spalding (1840–1916) Catholic bishop

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 163

“People need new tools to work with rather than new tools that work for them.”

Ivan Illich book Tools for Conviviality

Tools for Conviviality (1973), p. 10

“He was a shiftless person, roving and magotie-headed, and sometimes little better than crased.”

John Aubrey (1626–1697) English writer and antiquarian

Anthony Wood (1667), Life (from 1632 to 1672, written by himself; continued till 1695 a 1695, 1772, 1848, O.H.S. 1891–1900 http://www.archive.org/stream/lifeandtimesant00clargoog#page/n150/mode/2up); as quoted in the Oxford English Dictionary, Draft Revision June 2009, maggoty, adj. http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/entry/00299405
Criticism

“Mother, any distance greater than a single span
requires a second pair of hands.”

Simon Armitage (1963) Poet, playwright, novelist

'*', from Book Of Matches.

“The dressmaker doesn't have problems unless the dress has to hide rather than reveal.”

Stefan Zweig book The Post Office Girl

The Post Office Girl (published posthumously in 1982)

“…it is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.”

Randall Jarrell book Pictures from an Institution

Source: Pictures from an Institution (1954) [novel], Ch. 4, p. 173

“In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.”

John Kenneth Galbraith (1908–2006) American economist and diplomat

The Guardian [UK] (28 July 1989)

“I'm only giving orders because I'm more efficient and smarter than you are.”

Jack Vance book The Five Gold Bands

Source: The Five Gold Bands (1950), Chapter 5 (p. 57)

“It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.”

Daniel Defoe (1660–1731) English trader, writer and journalist

The Life and Adventures of http://books.google.com/books?id=IZ9CAAAAYAAJ&q=%22better+to+have+a+Lyon+at+the+Head%22+%22an+Army+of+Sheep+than+a+Sheep+at+the+Head%22+%22an+Army+of+Lyons%22&pg=PA33#v=onepage Mrs. Christian Davies (1741)

“Nowhere is the difference between either/or and both/and more clearly apparent than in the context of information.”

Hans Christian von Baeyer (1938) American physicist

Source: Information, The New Language of Science (2003), Chapter 20, A Game of Beads, The wonder of quantum superposition, p. 182

“Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.”

Rabindranath Tagore Stray Birds

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Stray Birds (1916)

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