“I cannot comprehend the neglect of a family library in such days as these." - Mr. Darcy”
Thoughtful feeling
Thoughtful Quotes — page 145 of 303
“I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.”
“Never be arrogant or abrasive. Treat your opponent respectfully if they really and truly believe they are right.”
“We learn the social norms of our society and modify our behaviour accordingly.”
“I think we're still in a muddle with our language, because once you get words and a spoken language it gets harder to communicate.”
“Turn things around sometimes and look at life from a different perspective.”
“Taste is, so to speak, the microscope of the judgment.”
“One should commit no stupidity twice, the variety of choice is, in the end, large enough.”
“I had to learn how to chop wood actually - I don't think my dad would have let me go chop wood in the backyard growing up.”
“It's like Scott Wolf, I never thought he looked like Tom Cruise until somebody said it and now that they've said it, I see it every time I look at him!”
“Increasingly constructive doubt is the sign of advancing civilization.”
“Only a very foolish lawyer will dare guess the outcome of a jury trial.”
“Some men are deeply likable but have attitudes I don't like. Does that mean I should completely dismiss them? It's like saying: if someone votes Tory can you like them? And, yes, I can. I have friends who vote Tory, and I'm appalled, but that's not to say they're not great people in so many other ways. We have a tendency to oversimplify things.”
“If one has not read the newspapers for some months and then reads them all together, one sees, as one never saw before, how much time is wasted with this kind of literature.”
“No two people see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will often apply the same principle, recognized by both, differently. Even one and the same person won't always maintain the same views and judgments: earlier convictions must give way to later ones.”
“And I have again observed, my dear friend, in this trifling affair, that misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than even malice and wickedness. At all events, the two latter are of less frequent occurrence.”
“Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always so composed, so full of wisdom, that we are able to take in at once the whole scope of a work according to its merits. Do we not mark in a book passages which seem to have a direct reference to ourselves? Young people especially, who have failed in acquiring a complete cultivation of mind, are roused in a praiseworthy way by brilliant passages.”
“A purpose you impart is no longer your own.”
“The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.”
“I am not so much concerned with the right of everyone to say anything he pleases as I am about our need as a self-governing people to hear everything relevant.”