F Quotes
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“Few have heard of Fra Luca Pacioli, the inventor of double-entry bookkeeping; but he has probably had much more influence on human life than has Dante or Michelangelo.”
“Few have the mindset of employers when many are willing to stay employed for life.”
“Few have wished for memory so much as they have longed for forgetfulness.”
Source: Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd
“Few honey bees buzzed above my head, pollinating on the last few flowers left untouched. But all the butterflies were in my stomach.”
Source: A Play of the Cosmos: Script of the Stars
“Few human beings are proof against the implied flattery of rapt attention.”
“Few human beings give of themselves to another as a dog gives of itself.”
“Few human creatures would consent to be changed into any of the lower animals for a promise of the fullest allowance of a beast's pleasures; no intelligent human being would consent to be a fool, no instructed person would be an ignoramus, no person of feeling and conscience would be selfish and base, even though they should be persuaded that the fool, the dunce, or the rascal is better satisfied with his lot than they are with theirs.”
Source: The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill
“Few husbands (and the longer I observe, the more I am convinced of the truth of what I am about to say, and I make no exception in favor of education or station) have the magnanimity to use justly, generously, the power which the law puts in their hands.”
Source: FRESH LEAVES
“Few, I believe, have had much affection for mankind, who did not first love their parents, their brothers, sisters, and even the domestic brutes, whom they first played with.”
Source: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
“Few I have met have actually had a ‘last year.’ Most had only a ‘last’ month or two, a few weeks or days, or a few seconds. To have a whole year to examine one’s life consciously in the context of approaching death is almost unique in the human experience. And it gives a person the power to heal that which remains unloved and unloving. But why wait for a terminal diagnosis before opening to the potential grace and wonder of this living moment. No one can afford to put this work off any longer, because almost no one knows the day on which the last year begins.”
Source: A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last
“Few ideas are in themselves practical. It is for want of imagination in applying them that they fail. The creative process does not end with an idea-it only starts with an idea.”
“Few ideas in all of human history have been more thoroughly misunderstood than the simple concept of evolution. Intellectuals in Victorian England, eager to use the science of their time to bolster a class system already cracking under the weight of its own injustice, invented the notion that some living things- and thus some people- are "more evolved" than others. That turn of phrase is still much used today, but in the real world, it is quite simple nonsense.
Every living being is just as evolved as every other, because every living thing has been shaped by evolution over the exact same period of time since life first evolved”
Source: Mystery Teachings from the Living Earth: An Introduction to Spiritual Ecology
“Few if any political philosophers have had the courage of tackling the Cold War. Even the best of them have kept silent or have stated some bromides glossing over the serious shortcomings of "our" side, such as racism, social injustice, extreme income disparities, the exploitation of the Third World, and environmental degradation.”
“Few if any seemed to have grasped the Principle of Reality; new knowledge leads always to yet more awesome mysteries. Greater physiological knowledge of the brain makes the existence of the soul less possible yet more probable by the nature of the search.”
Source: The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger
“Few if any teenagers can relate to getting up for school and finding famous comics like Pryor and Williams hanging out in your living room after a hard night of partying. But that's Hollywood.”
“Few in these hot, dim, strenuous times are quite sane or free; choked with care like clocks full of dust, laboriously doing so much good and making so much money - or so little, they are no longer good for themselves.”
Source: JOHN MUIR’S CALIFORNIA COLLECTION: My First Summer in the Sierra, Picturesque California, The Mountains of California, The Yosemite & Our National Parks (Illustrated): Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Writings and Wilderness Essays
“Few in this world are ever simply nasty; those who hurt us are themselves in pain. The appropriate response is hence never cynicism nor aggression but, at the rare moments one can manage it, always love.”
Source: The Course of Love
“Few Indians only had breech cloths, most being wrapped in buffalo robes, otherwise quite naked.”
Source: Exploratory Travels Through the Western Territories of North America: Comprising a Voyage from St. Louis, on the Mississippi, to the Source of that River, and a Journey Through the Interior of Louisiana, and the North-eastern Provinces of New Spain ; Performed in the Years 1805, 1806, 1807, by Order of the Government of the United States
“Few individuals significantly alter the course of history. Fewer still modify the map of the world. Hardly anyone can be credited with creating a nation-state. Mohammad Ali Jinnah did all three.”
“Few influential people involved with the Internet claim that it is a good in and of itself. It is a powerful tool for solving social problems, just as it is a tool for making money, finding lost relatives, receiving medical advice, or, come to that, trading instructions for making bombs.”
“Few intellectual tyrannies can be more recalcitrant than the truths that everybody knows and nearly no one can defend with any decent data (for who needs proof of anything so obvious). And few intellectual activities can be more salutary than attempts to find out whether these rocks of ages might crumble at the slightest tap of an informational hammer.”
Source: Life's Grandeur: The Spread of Excellence From Plato to Darwin
“Few kids seek to learn a skill specifically designed to impress people unless they feel less than impressive themselves.”
“Few kinds of people mostly the busy ones, and the pseudo-intellectual ones, or the jealous ones and the foolish ones, do not comment on anything, Criticize yourself which group you belong.”
“Few knew in 2000 that Bush was going to end up with neoconservatives all over the place. And once 9/11 happened, I think it's fair to say that eight or nine neocons have had an enormous influence. The whole solution to every problem was to go after Iraq. This had been a neoconservative mantra for ten years. There was no secret about it.”
“Few knew in 2000 that George W. Bush was going to end up with neoconservatives all over the place. Once 9/11 happened, I think it's fair to say that some neocons have had an enormous influence. The whole solution to every problem was to go after Iraq. This had been a neoconservative mantra for ten years. Bush certainly sees himself as having been given an endorsement. He was asked why Donald Rumsfeld,Condoleezza Rice, and Paul Wolfowitz have been promoted, these people who led us into the debacle in Iraq. Bush said there was accountability-it was the election. So there we are.”
“Few knew that she was broken. Whatever power had blessed her, divine or otherwise, was gone-or at least out of reach. Her followers were kept at a distance so they could not see that her eyes were dark hollows, that her breath came in frightened gasps. She walked slowly, tentatively, her driftwood bones fragile in her body, this sickly girl upon whom all their hopes rested.”
Source: Ruin and Rising
“Few know how to be old.”
“Few know the joys that spring from a disinterested curiosity. It is like a cheerful spirit that leads us through worlds filled with what is true and fair, which we admire and love because it is true and fair.”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion
“Few know the use of life before 'tis past.”
Source: The Works of John Dryden,: The life of John Dryden
“Few lack talent, but most people lack the vision and perseverance to develop their talents.”
“Few leaders are born. We learn to be leaders. We learn by working with other people and working through our philosophy.”
“Few learn golf in a lifetime.”
“Few legislators who passed these mental health laws realized that (Brock) Chisholm and his associates defined mental illness as a sense of loyalty to a particular nation, a sense of loyalty to a moral code, and strict adherence to concepts of right and wrong. Chisholm has been obsessed for years with the idea that instilling concepts of right and wrong, love of country and morality in children by their parents is the paramount evil.”
“Few literary depictions of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake match the intensity and visceral power of those in Flacco's gripping first novel. The author's screenwriting talent shines in this story of the earth's destructive power and humanity's moral depravity. The emerging maniacal personality, revealed in increasingly gruesome and venomous detail, rivals the Ripper.Dickens meets Hannibal Lecter. Brace yourself.”
“Few look for truth; many prowl about for a reputation of profundity by arrogantly challenging whichever arguments are the best.”
“Few love to hear the sins they love to act.”
“Few love what they may have.”
“Few loyal friends will lift you up when you fall.”
“Few males achieve any real freedom in their sexual relations even with their wives. Few males realise how badly inhibited they are on these matters.”
“Few maxims are true in every respect.”
Source: La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims
“Few men are admired by their servants.”
“Few men are born brave. Many become so through training and force of discipline.”
“Few men are brave by nature, but good discipline and experience make many so.”
“Few men are killed by the bayonet, many are scared by it. Bayonets should be fixed when the fire fight starts”
“Few men are of one plain, decided color; most are mixed, shaded, and blended; and vary as much, from different situations, as changeable silks do from different lights.”
Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters
“Few men are raised in our estimation by being too closely examined.”
“Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to acknowledgment of a divine power.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study
“Few men are wantonly wicked.”
Source: The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas
“Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change the world which yields most painfully to change.”
“Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their peers, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world that yields most painfully to change.”