{"id":84095,"date":"2024-01-18T16:32:31","date_gmt":"2024-01-18T16:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.english-culture.com\/?p=165"},"modified":"2025-01-29T22:19:42","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T22:19:42","slug":"aphorisms-and-quotations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.english-culture.com\/aphorisms-and-quotations\/","title":{"rendered":"Aphorisms and Quotations"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Quotes,<\/a>
Quotes, aphorisms and life<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Aphorisms and Quotations, a collection of quotes on aphorisms and quotations, various definitions by very famous and international authors, writers and witty artists.<\/span><\/p>\n

Aphorismus est sermo brevis, integrum sensum propositae rei scribens. That is\u00a0 – An aphorism is a brief utterance, which writes the complete meaning of the matter – this is the exact definition proposed by Isidore de S\u00e9ville.\u00a0 As a matter of fact an aphorism is usually a saying expressing a belief, an idea, a thought, a saying, a piece of literature and so on. Synonyms for aphorisms could be: adage, apothegm, axiom, dictum, maxim, moral, precept, proverb, rule, saw, saying, truism, axiom, device, dictum, fundamental, law, maxim, moral, postulate, precept, proposition, proverb, saying, theorem, truism, truth, byword, catchphrase, catchword, dictum, epithet, gnome, gnomic saying, handle, maxim, motto, nickname, precept, proverb, quotation, quote, saw, shibboleth, slogan, standing joke. An aphorism can express also absurdity, ambiguity, foolishness, nonsense, amusement and paradox, because it is the king of the metaphorical language.
\nCarl William Brown
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An aphorism is a mental exercise, psychical, logical, linguistic, spiritual, ritual, emotional and rational, it is a major conceptual and literary activity, a mixture of prose and poetry that conveys, in addition to ideology, sympathy or antipathy.<\/span>
\n Carl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.<\/span>
\nGeorge Santayana<\/span><\/p>\n

Life itself is a quotation.<\/span>
\nJorge Luis Borges<\/span><\/p>\n

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.<\/span>
\nBenjamin Disraeli<\/span><\/p>\n

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.<\/span>
\nE. B. White<\/span><\/p>\n

By giving people the power to share, we’re making the world more transparent.<\/span>
\nMark Zuckerberg<\/span><\/p>\n

They know enough who know how to learn. <\/span>
\nHenry Brooks Adams<\/span><\/p>\n

Formal education will make you a living; self education will make you a fortune. <\/span>
\nJim Rohn<\/span><\/p>\n

Since we cannot know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.<\/span>
\nJohn Holt<\/span><\/p>\n

A great fortune depends on luck, a small one on diligence. <\/span>
\nChinese Proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

An aphorism is a synthesis of poetry and prose, it is a narrative precipitate, a didactic parable, an ideological concept, in practice it ‘s compressed and zipped philosophy . It is literature that adapts itself to the digital age.<\/span>
\n Carl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

An aphorism is nothing else but\u00a0 the slightest form of writing raised to the highest level of expressive communication.
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

An aphorism is an extreme synthesis of thesis and antithesis, theory and practice, it’s a mixture of intuition and observation, hypothesis and illusions of certainty and probability, history and stupidity.<\/span>
\n Carl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart’s blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.<\/span>
\n Francis H. Bradley<\/span><\/p>\n

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.<\/span>
\n Samuel Taylor Coleridge<\/span><\/p>\n

An aphorism is a judgment, a maxim, a sentence that expresses exactly the fruit of a long life experience, observation, analysis, pain in the ass … and so on!
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.<\/span>
\n Vladimir Nabokov<\/span><\/p>\n

In the mountains the shortest route is from peak to peak, but for that you must have long legs. Aphorisms should be peaks: and those to whom they are spoken should be big and tall of stature.<\/span>
\n Friedrich Nietzsche<\/span><\/p>\n

Maxims and aphorisms, let us remember that wisdom is the true salt of literature, and the books that are most nourishing are richly stored with it, and that is the main object to seek in reading books.<\/span>
\n John Morely<\/span><\/p>\n

Quotations<\/span><\/p>\n

Excluded by my birth and tastes from the social order, I was not aware of its diversity. Nothing in the world was irrelevant: the stars on a general’s sleeve, the stock-market quotations, the olive harvest, the style of the judiciary, the wheat exchange, flower-beds. Nothing. This order, fearful and feared, whose details were all inter-related, had a meaning: my exile.<\/span>
\n Jean Genet<\/span><\/p>\n

In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.<\/span>
\n Bob Dylan<\/span><\/p>\n

Stay at home in your mind. Don’t recite other people’s opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.<\/span>
\n Ralph Waldo Emerson<\/span><\/p>\n

In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.<\/span>
\n George Eliot<\/span><\/p>\n

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.<\/span>
\n James Baldwin<\/span><\/p>\n

Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.<\/span>
\n Walter Benjamin<\/span><\/p>\n

Life itself is a quotation.<\/span>
\n Jorge Luis Borges<\/span><\/p>\n

I pick my favorite quotation and store them in my mind as ready armor, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.<\/span>
\n Robert Burns<\/span><\/p>\n

At the heart of every aphorism, no matter how new or even paradoxical it may seem, beats an ancient truth.<\/span>
\nArthur Schnitzler<\/span><\/p>\n

A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion.<\/span>
\n Robert Chapman<\/span><\/p>\n

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read a book of quotations.<\/span>
\n Winston Churchill<\/span><\/p>\n

That is the point of quotations. One can use another’s words to be insulting.<\/span>
\n Amanda Cross<\/span><\/p>\n

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.<\/span>
\n Isaac D’Israeli<\/span><\/p>\n

Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.<\/span>
\n Guy Debord<\/span><\/p>\n

When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, and opening quotation is a symphony precluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize.<\/span>
\n Benjamin Disraeli<\/span><\/p>\n

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.<\/span>
\n Ralph Waldo Emerson<\/span><\/p>\n

The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.<\/span>
\n Ralph Waldo Emerson<\/span><\/p>\n

Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.<\/span>
\n W. I. E. Gates<\/span><\/p>\n

I improve on misquotation.<\/span>
\n Cary Grant<\/span><\/p>\n

Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the part of the quoter, and a blessing to a public grown superficial and external.<\/span>
\n Louise Imogen Guiney<\/span><\/p>\n

Quotations offer one kind of break in what the eye can see, the ear can hear.<\/span>
\n Ihab Hassan<\/span><\/p>\n

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.<\/span>
\n Samuel Johnson<\/span><\/p>\n

Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.<\/span>
\n Samuel Johnson<\/span><\/p>\n

He wrapped himself in quotations – as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.<\/span>
\n Rudyard Kipling<\/span><\/p>\n

Fidelity to the subject’s thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation.<\/span>
\n Janet Malcolm<\/span><\/p>\n

Be careful — with quotations, you can damn anything.<\/span>
\n Andre Malraux<\/span><\/p>\n

After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.<\/span>
\n H. L. Mencken<\/span><\/p>\n

A book that furnishes no quotations is no book — it is a plaything.<\/span>
\n Thomas Love Peacock<\/span><\/p>\n

Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely-read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.<\/span>
\n Hesketh Pearson<\/span><\/p>\n

A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.<\/span>
\n Lord Peter Wimsey<\/span><\/p>\n

One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people’s throats –and one always secretes too much jelly.<\/span>
\n Virginia Woolf<\/span><\/p>\n

In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera.<\/span>
\n Arthur Miller<\/span><\/p>\n

A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.<\/span>
\n Joseph Roux<\/span><\/p>\n

A quotation at the right moment is like bread to the famished.<\/span>
\n The Talmud<\/span><\/p>\n

In the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. It used to be the classics, now it’s lyric verse.<\/span>
\n Evelyn Waugh<\/span><\/p>\n

Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.<\/span>
\n Orson Welles<\/span><\/p>\n

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.<\/span>
\n Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.<\/span>
\n Lord Peter Wimsey<\/span><\/p>\n

One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people’s throats –and one always secretes too much jelly.<\/span>
\n Virginia Woolf<\/span><\/p>\n

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Quotes by authors<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Quotes by arguments<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Thoughts and reflections<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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