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How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?

Quote by George Seferis about education, contentment, man

Don't ask who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.

Quote by George Seferis about attitude, life

For poetry there exists neither large countries nor small. Its domain is in the heart of all men.

Quote by George Seferis about poetry, country, heart, man

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Quote by George Seferis about action, proudness, end, egoism, things, man

Simplicity is a quality of great people.

Quote by George Muntean about simplicity, quality, people

In the 1960s, I continued the work on the secretory process using in parallel or in succession two different approaches. The first relied exclusively on cell fractionation, and was developed in collaboration with Philip Siekevitz, Lewis Greene,...

Quote by George Emil Palade about medicine, univers, research, animals, work, good, good luck

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Quote by Mary Ann Evans about animals

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

Quote by Mary Ann Evans about opinion, celebrity, stars, good, good luck

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.

Quote by Mary Ann Evans about faith, soul

A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.

Quote by George William Curtis about country, principle, patriotism, man

Ignorance is the mother of admiration.

Quote by George Carlin about ignorance, admiration, mother

They're only truly great who are truly good.

Quote by George Chapman about opinion, good, good luck

Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.

Quote by George Chapman about age, man, old, olderness

Most men find it difficult to remain true to a single woman, but relatively easy to be true to three or four at the same time.

Quote by Georges Courteline about fidelity, woman, man, time

If it was necessary to tolerate in other people everything that one permits oneself, life would be unbearable.

Quote by Georges Courteline about tolerance, life, people

It is better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Quote by Georges Courteline about opinion, waste, youth, nothing

Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience.

Quote by Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon about genius, aptitude, patience

The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until after having been fertilized by experience and meditation; its acquisitions are the gems of its production.

Quote by Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon about mind, meditation, experience, human imperfections, nothing

The style is the man himself.

Quote by Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon about style, man

Woman is before country, for every man in the world.

Quote by George Astalos about woman, country, world, man