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Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quotes

Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: statesman
Nationality: british
Birth: September 22, 1694 - March 24, 1773

Topics

Women Men Well Hearts Women Are Led

I was an agnostic until I realized that I had to choose between God and fate. The idea that humanity and nature are the result of fate was not convincing at all. I find the presence of God everywhere.

Nature God Fate Result Choose Find

I like funny guys and those, for some reason, tend to be nerdy guys.

Funny Reason Nerdy Like Some Guys

Hesitation is often like procrastination. One may have vague doubts and feel a need to mull things over; meanwhile, other issues intrude on thought, and no decision is taken. Ask people why they procrastinate, and you probably won't get a crisp answer.

Robert J. Shiller

Decision People Thought Feel You

Dream sleep provides a fascinating neurochemical soothing balm. It is during dream sleep and only during dream sleep when our brain shuts off a stress-related neurochemical called noradrenalin.

Sleep Brain Dream Off Only Soothing

Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends.

History Looking Friends Mystery Own

I argue that experiments have no special ability to produce more credible knowledge than other methods, and that actual experiments are frequently subject to practical problems that undermine any claims to statistical or epistemic superiority.

Knowledge Problems Special More Than

I've been visiting Thailand for more than 20 years but didn't fall in love with it until I visited Phuket Town in Phuket. The northern part of Phuket is one of the most fascinating places I've ever been, and largely unspoilt and unknown.

Love Fall Unknown Places More Years

I was bullied a lot... doing anything overly well was punished by the kids.

Doing Anything Well Kids Bullied

Public school teachers enjoy a huge amount of job security, thanks to their powerful unions and inflexible work rules.

Work Job School Enjoy Powerful

I come from a very working-class background, so my family would have been downstairs in the past, as opposed to upstairs. People are often quite surprised to hear that, that I'm not actually posh.

Michelle Dockery

Family Past People In The Past Been

Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others.

Failure People Heaven Done Others

But if two's company, three's a crowd - and that demands the omniscient point of view.

View Point Of View Three Company Two

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