Famous Quotes and Proverbs
If you are looking for famous quotes and proverbs, you've come to the right place! Browse our largest database, which contains over 150,000 quotations, proverbs and sayings by the most renowned poets, artists, authors, inventors and researchers both living and deceased. Use our famous quotes and proverbs to support the content of your essay, term paper, research paper or dissertation. Be inspired by our quotes, proverbs and sayings now!
Search our collection by author, topic or keyword. It's completely FREE!
Browse Keywords:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
(Click a letter to view the keywords)
(Click a letter to view the keywords)
Letter "S" » sighted
«Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted»
«There is a wonder in reading Braille that the sighted will never know: to touch words and have them touch you back.»
«Cosmetics is a boon to every woman, but a girl's best beauty aid is still a near-sighted man»
«The clear sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it»
«The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawkishness.»
Author: John Keats
(Poet)
| About:
Imagination
| Keywords:
ferment, fermented, mature, sighted, thence, thick, thickest, uncertain, undecided, way of life
«A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.»
Author: Vaclav Havel
(Playwright, President)
| Keywords:
genuinely, human action, sighted, temporalities, temporality
«It quite often happens that the old man is subject to the delusion of a great moral renewal and rebirth, and from this experience he passes judgments on the work and course of his life, as if he had only now become clear-sighted; and yet the inspiration behind this feeling of well-being and these confident judgements is not wisdom, but weariness .»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
clear-sighted, delusion, judgments, Old Course, rebirth, sighted, subject to, The old man, weariness, well-being
«It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.»
«Fear is sharp-sighted and can see things under ground and much more in the skies.»
Research our database of free Biographies. Sign-up for the database of college sample papers for only $14.95/month. Buy a custom written essay, term paper, research paper or dissertation on any topic and get a discount!
