Finest Quotes - Page 6

• The finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone.

  John Lyly

  Blunt, Made, Edges

  John Lyly (1868). “Euphues. The Anatomy of Wit. Editio princeps, 1579. Euphues and his England. Editio princeps, 1580. Collated with early subsequent editions ... Carefully edited by Edward Arber”, p.47

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• Some of the finest moral intuitions come to quite humble people. The visiting of lofty ideas doesn't depend on formal schooling.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Inspirational, Humble, Ideas

  Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien Price (2001). “Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead”, p.194, David R. Godine Publisher

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• [On Cantor's work:] The finest product of mathematical genius and one of the supreme achievements of purely intellectual human activity.

  David Hilbert

  Discovery, Achievement, Intellectual

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• An impressively researched and documented collection of the finest thought produced by writers throughout the African Diaspora. A magnificent achievement.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Achievement, Diaspora, Magnificent

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• Our past is the forge upon which we are hardened and tempered, to prepare us for the present. We are like a fine blade that must be hammered into shape before it can be ready to make its finest cuts.

  Larry Atchley Jr.

  Cutting, Past, Shapes

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• I contend that we are the finest race in the world and that the more of the world we inhabit the better it is for the human race. Just fancy those parts that are at present inhabited by the most despicable specimens of human beings what an alteration there would be if they were brought under Anglo-Saxon influence, look again at the extra employment a new country added to our dominions gives.

  Cecil Rhodes

  Country, Race, Giving

  "Confession of Faith". Essay by Cecil Rhodes, 1877.

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• It is far more independent to travel on foot. You have to sacrifice so much to the horse. You cannot choose the most agreeable places in which to spend the noon., commanding the finest views, because commonly there is no water there, or you cannot get there with your horse.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Travel, Horse, Home

  Henry David Thoreau (1999). “Elevating Ourselves: Thoreau on Mountains”, p.8, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The game's finest mistakes were perpetrated by Djimi Traore, who interrupted his general competence with one air shot, one slice over his own head and a foul so telegraphed that even the lenient referee seemed to have his card out a couple of seconds before contact was made, to show the first yellow of the game.

  Phil Cornwell

  Soccer, Football, Couple

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• But even considering these, I have great confidence in our young people as a whole. I regard you as the finest generation in the history of the Church. I compliment you, and I have in my heart a great feeling of love and respect and appreciation for you.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Appreciation, Heart, Our Generation

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• I consider Mr. Morphy the finest chess player who ever existed. He is far superior to any now living, and would doubtless have beaten Labourdonnais himself. In all his games with me, he has not only played, in every instance, the exact move, but the most exact. He never makes a mistake; but, if his adversary commits the slightest error, he is lost.

  Adolf Anderssen

  Mistake, Moving, Player

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• My signature line of clothing for Satya Paul will showcase a distinctive aspect of my own personal style. Co-creating and endorsing a line for one of India's finest brands will be a new experience for me

  Gauri Khan

  New Experiences, Creating, Style

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• The human mind cannot go beyond the gift of God, the Holy Ghost. To suppose that art can go beyond the finest specimens of art that are now in the world is not knowing what art is; it is being blind to the gifts of the spirit.

  William Blake

  Art, Gifts Of The Spirit, Knowing

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.544, Univ of California Press

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• The most awkward means are adequate to the communication of authentic experience, and the finest words no compensation for lack of it. It is for this reason that we are moved by the true Primitives and that the most accomplished art craftsmanship leaves us cold.

  Ananda Coomaraswamy

  Art, Communication, Mean

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• The states can make the finest contribution to the building of India's future independence if they set the right example in their own territories.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Independence, Territory, India

  Mahatma Gandhi (1993). “Gandhi on Nehru”

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• The finest defense of character is correct action. Acquaint yourself with virtue, and you can expect proper treatment from those around you.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Character, Defense, Action

  Brandon Sanderson (2010). “The Way of Kings”, p.819, Macmillan

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• A few years ago we colonised this place with some of our finest felons, thieves, muggers, alcoholics and prostitutes, a strain of depravity which I believe has contributed greatly to this country's amazing vigour and enterprise.

  Ian Wooldridge

  Funny, Country, Believe

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• We live, understandably enough, with the sense of urgency; our clock, like Baudelaire's, has had the hands removed and bears the legend, "It is later than you think." But with us it is always a little too late for mind, yet never too late for honest stupidity; always a little too late for understanding, never too late for righteous, bewildered wrath; always too late for thought, never too late for naïve moralizing. We seem to like to condemn our finest but not our worst qualities by pitting them against the exigency of time.

  Lionel Trilling

  Thinking, Wrath, Hands

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• Johnny Vassilaros is the man who has created the finest cup of coffee ever served in the city of New York.

  Lewis Black

  New York, Coffee, Men

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• The Woodstock Film festival is among the finest of a dying breed: a festival that isn’t trying to sell you anything, but simply and beautifully celebrating the art & craft of filmmaking.

  Ethan Hawke

  Art, Dying, Trying

  "Toolkit | Meet the Woodstock Film Festival Programmers (In Their Own Words)" by Brian Brooks, www.indiewire.com. June 24, 2011.

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• At its finest moments climbing allows me to step out of ordinary existence into something extraordinary, stripping me of my sense of self-importance.

  Doug Scott

  Climbing, Self, Ordinary

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• The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man.

  Albert Einstein

  Art, Lying, Men

  "Mein Weltbild (My World-view)". Essay by Albert Einstein, 1931.

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• I have also known some of the world's finest brains and some of these, though passionately fond of chess, have been pretty poor players. I used to know one of the world's leading mathematicians and whenever we played chess I had to give him the odds of a Queen to make matters more equal, and even then I always won.

  Harry Golombek

  Success, Queens, Player

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• Amos Oz is one of the finest novelists of this entire period. MY MICHAEL is a beautiful work of great depth and in some indescribable way lingers in the mind as a lyric song to his country's people as much as a moving love story.

  Arthur Miller

  Beautiful, Country, Song

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• John Lane has long been recognized as one of the South's finest poets and memoirists. This debut establishes him as one of our finest novelists as well. His poet's eye for detail seamlessly merges with a born storyteller's gift for narrative. Fate Moreland's Widow gives voice to those who endured one of the most painful and neglected chapters in American history.

  Ron Rash

  Eye, Fate, Voice

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• You are great young people. I have said again and again, we have the finest generation of young people ever in the history of this Church. I believe it. You know the gospel better. You come to seminary and you learn about the things of the Lord here. You know more about the gospel than those of my generation at your age did without any question. I am satisfied of that. Furthermore, you are intrinsically better. You are wonderful young people!

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Believe, Our Generation, People

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