Ciphers Quotes

• It is disgraceful to live at the cost of one's self-respect. Self-respect is the most vital factor in life. Without it, man is a cipher. To live worthily with self-respect, one has to overcome difficulties. It is out of hard and ceaseless struggle alone that one derives strength, confidence and recognition.

  B. R. Ambedkar

  Struggle, Men, Self

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• It may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  May, Resolve, Ingenuity

  Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)”, p.1265, Delphi Classics

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• We write our lives indeed, But in a cipher none can read, Except the author

  Frances Ridley Havergal

  Writing, Our Lives

  Frances Ridley Havergal (1874). “Under the Surface”, p.11

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• Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

  Thomas Carlyle

  Laughter, Men, Keys

  Thomas Carlyle (1833). “Fraser's Magazine”, p.592

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• Few persons can be made to believe that it is not quite an easy thing to invent a method of secret writing that shall baffle investigation. Yet it may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Believe, Writing, Discovery

  Edgar Allan Poe (2016). “Complete Works Of Edgar Allan Poe: The New Raven Edition”, p.1177, ShandonPress

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• Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.

  Bernard Baruch

  Teacher, Retirement, Numbers

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• Nos numeros sumus et fruges consumere nati. We are but ciphers, born to consume earth's fruits.

  Horace

  Earth, Fruit, Birth

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• Each scar's a cipher rimmed with old barbs and landmines, protecting its truth.

  J. L. B. Smith

  Scar, Self Mutilation, Landmines

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• You are not going to know the meaning of God or prayer unless you reduce yourself to a cipher.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Prayer, Knows

  Mahatma Gandhi (2011). “The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi”, p.45, North Atlantic Books

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• The moral system of the universe is like a document written in alternate ciphers, which change from line to line.

  James Anthony Froude

  Lines, Morality, Documents

  James Anthony Froude (2004). “Short Studies on Great Subjects”, p.6, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• Sometimes you start flowing and shits starts adding on to whatever cipher you're dealing with. Meanwhile you got all of these thoughts in your head and you don't get enough time to put them down. That's another reason I started writing from the last word to the front word. It's methods to the madness. Sometimes I can't understand it or explain it but it is what it is.

  Rakim

  Writing, Lasts, Enough Time

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• The American father is never seen in London. He passes his life entirely in Wall Street and communicates with his family once a month by means of a telegram in cipher.

  Oscar Wilde

  Family, Wall, Father

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.1861, Delphi Classics

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• ART, n. This word has no definition. Its origin is related by the ingenious Father Gassalasca Jape as "One day a wag - what would the wretch be at? Shifted a letter of the cipher RAT, And said it was a god's name! . . ."

  Ambrose Bierce

  Art, Father, Names

  Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.575, Library of America

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• I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!

  George Eliot

  Faces, Poet, Unwritten

  George Eliot (1863). “Romola”, p.107

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• Poetry is the cipher key to the five mystic wishes packed in a hollow silver bullet fed to a flying fish.

  Carl Sandburg

  Keys, Flying, Wish

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.318, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I'm somebody who likes codes and ciphers and chases and artwork and architecture, and all the things you find in a Robert Langdon thriller.

  Dan Brown

  Likes, Architecture, Artwork

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• Thou seekest disciples? Then thou seekest ciphers.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Leadership, Disciple

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• The introduction of the cipher 0 or the group concept was general nonsense too, and mathematics was more or less stagnating for thousands of years because nobody was around to take such childish steps.

  Alexander Grothendieck

  Math, Years, Groups

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• At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book—that string of confused, alien ciphers—shivered into meaning. Words spoke to you, gave up their secrets; at that moment, whole universes opened. You became, irrevocably, a reader.

  Alberto Manguel

  Confused, Book, Childhood

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• Nobility of birth is like a cipher; it has no power in itself, like wealth or talent; but, it tells with all the power of a cipher when added to either of the other two.

  John Frederick Boyes

  Two, Ancestry, Talent

  John Frederick Boyes (1859). “Life and Books: Or, Records of Thought and Reading”, p.58

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• These are the men who, without virtue, labour, or hazard, are growing rich, as their country is impoverished; they rejoice, when obstinacy or ambition adds another year to slaughter and devastation; and laugh, from their desks, at bravery and science, while they are adding figure to figure, and cipher to cipher, hoping for a new contract from a new armament, and computing the profits of a siege or tempest.

  Samuel Johnson

  Country, Honesty, Integrity

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1811). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes”, p.115

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• When I came of age I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher to the Rule of Three.... The little advanceI now have upon this store of education, I have picked up from time to time under the pressure of necessity.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Education, Writing, Age

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.50, Fordham Univ Press

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• Bach is like an astronomer who, with the help of ciphers, finds the most wonderful stars.

  Frederic Chopin

  Stars, Helping, Wonderful

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• I was not an atheist. Few people really are, for that means blind faith in the strange proposition that this universe originated in a cipher and aimlessly rushes nowhere.

  Bill W.

  Atheist, Mean, People

  Bill W. (1976). “Alcoholics Anonymous: the story of how many thousands of men and women have recovered from alcoholism”

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• He that plots to be the only figure among ciphers [zeros], is the decay of the whole age.

  Francis Bacon

  Age, Plot, Decay

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