Instructive Figures Quotes & Sayings
Enjoy reading and share 8 famous quotes about Instructive Figures with everyone.
Top Instructive Figures Quotes
The writing of solid, instructive stuff fortified by facts and figures is easy enough. There is no trouble in writing a scientific treatise on the folk-lore of Central China, or a statistical enquiry into the declining population of Prince Edward Island. But to write something out of one's own mind, worth reading for its own sake, is an arduous contrivance only to be achieved in fortunate moments, few and far in between. Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica. — Stephen Leacock
It is not important to be what you want to be. It's the ability to be what you are supposed to be that matters. — A. Spencer
In our dreams the ageless perils, gargoyles, trials, secret helpers, and instructive figures are nightly still encountered; and in their forms we may see reflected not only the whole picture of our present case, but also the clue to what we must do to be saved. — Joseph Campbell
I wanna die young and sell my soul, use up all your drugs and make me come. — Marilyn Manson
And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place, that they should seek God, in the hope that they might feel their way towards him and find him. Yet he is actually not far from each one of us. (Acts 17:26 — John C. Lennox
They are not insincere when they say that they believe these things. They do believe them, as people believe what they have always heard lauded and never discussed. But in the sense of that living belief which regulates conduct, they believe these doctrines just up to the point to which it is usual to act upon them. — John Stuart Mill
Never treat somebody's cleverness as his life's smartness. Cleverness is to hide the weakness and the smartness is to project the strength of his weakness. — Anuj
It was the rootlessness that went with being the son of an RAF officer that shaped me. I had been to 11 schools by the time I was 9. — Jonathan Powell