Giacomo Leopardi Quotes

Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.

Giacomo Leopardi

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: italian
  • Birth: June 29, 1798 - June 14, 1837

Topics

LifeExperienceSolitudeWorldReal

Mexico needs schools, rural development, and an independent judiciary, not high-tech weaponry.

Stephen Kinzer

IndependentDevelopmentMexicoRural

I checked to see if there'd been a really good book published in the last few decades. Then I started with what Cleopatra would have read, asking myself, 'What can we know about her education?' It turns out to be a very great deal, and bizarrely, no one had written about that before.

Stacy Schiff

EducationGoodGreatMyselfBook

As a kid, I didn't know that 'All in the Family' was satirizing male chauvinism or that Bobby Riggs was a self-promoting put-on. Many of us didn't get the irony and went on making fun of women and girls who wanted to play sports, especially the same sports that men and boys traditionally played.

Steve Rushin

FamilyWomenSportsMenFunPlay

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.

Sigmund Freud

ProgressMeNowContentMiddle

The most important thing is to continue to be yourself. The day after the Oscars, you have to get on with your life. To be honest and true to yourself.

Roberto Benigni

LifeDayYourselfBe YourselfYou

I fight like Bruce Lee. I train in his style of kung fu, wing chun. It's all about fighting with controlled power, so you learn to punch correctly.

Lucy Griffiths

PowerStyleFightFightingLearn

Yes, I've listened to just a few audiobooks - but hope to listen to more. I've wanted to investigate how my own books sound in this format and find the experience of listening, and not reading, quite fascinating.

Joyce Carol Oates

HopeExperienceListeningReading

Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.

Dorothy Height

GoalsWomanManGreatnessReachShe

America's economy cannot be disentangled from the free labor that built it, just as America's culture cannot be unbound from the black artists who cultivated it.

Clint Smith

CultureFreeBlackAmericaLabor

I like attractive people who aren't so terribly aware that they are attractive... people who aren't afraid to roll on the floor and make fools out of themselves.

Bob Fosse

PeopleFoolsAfraidOutFloorAware

I don't think of myself as unbreakable. Perhaps I'm just rather flexible and adaptable.

Aung San Suu Kyi

MyselfThinkFlexibleJustRather

I've been fired from a situational comedy with a script they wrote specifically for me because of my voice.

Penn Jillette

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