Desiderius Erasmus Quotes

The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes.

Desiderius Erasmus

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: philosopher
  • Nationality: dutch
  • Birth: October 28, 1466 - July 12, 1536

Topics

DoctorReputationPowerfulIgnorant

Describing certain sounds, there's a common language that guitar players have.

Joe Perry

GuitarLanguageCommonPlayers

The truth is, everything is eating and being eaten.

Joel Salatin

TruthEatingTruth IsEverything

We can't afford not to fully fund education.

John Perez

EducationAffordFundFully

My goal is to give girls and boys a different idea of expression. It's not always about looking pretty or cute. It's about expressing yourself however that may be, even if that's being silly or goofy or weird.

Sia

CuteYourselfLookingWeirdGoal

I have frequently noticed in myself a tendency to a diffuse style; a disposition to push my metaphors too far, employing a multitude of words to heighten the patness of the image, and so making of it a conceit rather than a metaphor, a fault copiously illustrated in the poetry of Cowley, Waller, Donne, and others of that ilk.

Sidney Lanier

StyleMyselfWordsPoetryPushFar

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Simone Weil

BeautyPromisesNeverAnythingGives

I just felt like there was a world of cartoon voices that had to be discovered by me.

Tom Kenny

MeWorldCartoonVoicesJustLike

I'm not afraid of the press or the Militia.

Mary Harris Jones

AfraidPressMilitia

An audience is going to be able to find a little bit of Dorothy in themselves and relate to this woman.: roles like Dorothy Day are so rare in Hollywood.

Moira Kelly

DayWomanFindHollywoodAudience

Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.

Louis L'Amour

WorldNobodyContentBeing Content

All mathematics is is a language that is well tuned, finely honed, to describe patterns; be it patterns in a star, which has five points that are regularly arranged, be it patterns in numbers like 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 that follow very regular progression.

Brian Greene

MathematicsLanguageNumbersFollow

I think it's more important to write something that brings men back to reading than it is to write for people who already read. There's a reason men don't read, and it's because books don't serve men. It's time we produce books that serve men.

Chuck Palahniuk

TimeMenPeopleReadingThinkBack

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