William Strunk Jr., Elements of Style
24 Mar , 2011
Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects […]
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15 Feb , 2011
We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them. Great short quote and quotation by: Oliver Wendell […]
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15 Feb , 2011
We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities. Great short quote and quotation by: Henry Bolingbroke ,
15 Feb , 2011
We know truth, not only by reason, but also by the heart. Great short quote and quotation by: Blaise Pascal , French mathematician, physicist (1623 – 1662)
15 Feb , 2011
We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason outselves into it. Great short quote and quotation by: William Butler Yeats , Irish dramatist & poet (1865 – 1939)
William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 2 scene 2
15 Feb , 2011
What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! Great short quote and quotation by: William Shakespeare, “Hamlet”, Act 2 scene 2 , Greatest English dramatist & poet […]
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15 Feb , 2011
What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motions of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason. Great short quote and quotation by: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps ,
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15 Feb , 2011
What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing–to live in accord with his nature. Great short quote and quotation by: Seneca , Roman dramatist, philosopher, & politician (5 BC – 65 AD)
15 Feb , 2011
When a dog acts viciously we assume the reason is poor treatment and training by its owner. When a person acts criminally we look for the explanation in his brain, blood, and urine. When will psychiatrists begin testifying to the incompetence of schizophrenic pit bulls? Great short quote and quotation by: Nicolas Martin ,
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Socrates, Quoted in: Plato, Phaedrus.
15 Feb , 2011
When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire . . . Great short quote and quotation by: Socrates, Quoted in: Plato, Phaedrus. , Greek philosopher in Athens (469 BC – 399 BC)
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15 Feb , 2011
When men exercise their reason coolly and freely on a variety of distinct questions, they inevitably fall into different opinions on some of them. When they are governed by a common passion, their opinions, if they are to be called, will be the same. Great short quote and quotation by: Alexander Hamilton , US (Scottish-born) […]
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15 Feb , 2011
Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure. Great short quote and quotation by: Seneca , Roman dramatist, philosopher, & politician (5 BC – 65 AD)