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"Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius." Henri-Frédéric Amiel 4.4000 average rating Rate this Quote
"It is only by introducing the young to great literature, drama and music, and to the excitement of great science that we open to them the possibilities that lie within the human spirit -- enable them to see visions and dream dreams." Eric Anderson 4.5333 average rating Rate this Quote
"The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education." Maya Angelou 4.9091 average rating Rate this Quote
"Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives." Maya Angelou 4.3333 average rating Rate this Quote
"We really are 15 countries, and it's really remarkable that each of us thinks we represent the real America. The Midwesterner in Kansas, the black American in Durham -- both are certain they are the real American." Maya Angelou 4.2500 average rating Rate this Quote
"Talent is like a faucet; while it is open, you have to write. Inspiration? - a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance." Jean Anouilh 2.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy." Robert Newton Anthony 4.6154 average rating Rate this Quote
"What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations … is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts." Hannah Arendt 4.6667 average rating Rate this Quote
"Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and, consequently, imperishable." Aristotle 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities." Aristotle 4.7143 average rating Rate this Quote
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." Aristotle 4.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
"The echo began in some indescribable way to undermine her hold on life. Coming at a moment when she chanced to be fatigued, it had managed to murmur, 'Pathos, piety, courage -- they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.'" Richard 1.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Don't condescend to unskilled labor. Try it for half a day first." (Justin) Brooks Atkinson 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"The humorous man recognizes that absolute purity, absolute justice, absolute logic and perfection are beyond human achievement and that men have been able to live happily for thousands of years in a state of genial frailty." (Justin) Brooks Atkinson 4.7500 average rating Rate this Quote
"To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind." Paul Aubuchon 4.8182 average rating Rate this Quote
"It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ." Wystan Hugh Auden 1.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"The weaker the data available upon which to base one's conclusion, the greater the precision which should be quoted in order to give the data authenticity." Norman R. Augustine Rate this Quote
"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature." Marcus Aelius Aurelius 4.9500 average rating Rate this Quote
"Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life." Marcus Aelius Aurelius 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them." Jane Austen 4.8889 average rating Rate this Quote
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