The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
Quote, saying and phrase by: F. Scott Fitzgerald
The test is to recognize the mistake, ad…
The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Dr. Dale E. Turner
The test and use of a man’s education is…
The test and use of a man’s education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Carl Barzun
The test and the use of man’s education …
The test and the use of man’s education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Jacques Martin Barzun
The terrible thing about the quest for t…
The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Rmy de Gourmont
The three great apostles of practical at…
The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health, and power.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Charles Caleb Colton
The thought of our past years in me doth…
The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benedictions.
Quote, saying and phrase by: William Wordsworth
The thought of being president frightens…
The thought of being president frightens me. I do not think I want the job.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Ronald Reagan
The thirst for adventure is the vent whi…
The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer swing and play to the confined powers.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Ralph Waldo Emerson
The thinker dies, but his thoughts are b…
The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal but ideas are immortal.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Richard Adams