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Samuel Horsley Quotes

Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discover, and it is a principle even of piety; but wonder which ends in wonder, and is satisfied with wonder, is the quality of an idiot.

Samuel Horsley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: clergyman
Nationality: english
Birth: September 15, 1733 - October 4, 1806

Topics

Knowledge Quality Curiosity Idiot

It really feels like VR has the possibility to be something really huge.

John Carmack

Something Like VR Possibility Really

And, I'd never done Tennessee Williams, and I had done Broadway musicals, so it was a challenge.

Andrea Martin

Challenge Done Never Tennessee Had

All of my characters are a little bit based on people I know in real life. You know when you do that you have to change the character a little bit in case your friend or your relative reads the book, because you don't want them to know you wrote about them... They might get mad.

Meg Cabot

Life Change Friend Character People

School prayer, abortion, and school busing are indeed controversial issues. I doubt that there ever will be complete agreement on the public-policy questions they raise.

Max Baucus

Prayer School Questions Doubt Will

Inequality is partly a marker of success.

Angus Deaton

Success Inequality Partly

I've been forgotten by our Good Lord.

Jeanne Calment

Good Lord Forgotten Been Our

The buried code of many American films has become: If I kill you, I have won and you have lost. The instinctive ethical code of traditional Hollywood, the code by which characters like James Stewart, John Wayne and Henry Fonda lived, has been lost.

Roger Ebert

American You Lost Hollywood Become

Art, like real estate, is half science, half gut. We go to a lot of art fairs. We have two full-time art experts who help me make all the decisions about how to build the corporate and personal collection and what we put in our developments. We don't let interior designers pick art for us.

Jorge M. Perez

Science Art Me Real Estate Help Go

The U.S. views Morocco as an important friend, and we applaud your political and economic reforms that culminated with the recent parliamentary elections that were widely reported to have been conducted in a fair and open manner.

Donald Evans

Friend Political Important Fair Open

It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something.

Anthony Trollope

Great Fault Politicians Something

I think it's counterproductive in many ways to pretend to know things you don't. You surround yourself with people who are the real experts.

Mario Andretti

Yourself Surround Yourself People You

Cricket is not everything, not by any means, but it is a large part of who I am.

MS Dhoni

I Am Cricket Everything Who Means