Reticencia Em Quotes & Sayings

Nature and art: The material and the workmanship. There is no beauty unaided, no excellence that does not sink to the barbarous, unless saved by art: It redeems the bad and perfects the good. Because nature commonly forsakes us at her best, take refuge in art. The best in nature is raw without art, and the excellent is lacking if it lacks culture. Without cultivation everyone is a clown and needs polish, fine attributes notwithstanding. — Baltasar Gracian

People who are smart get into Mensa. People who are really smart look around and leave. — James Randi

Shallow intellect is worse than ignorance. Ignorance can be treated with knowledge, but shallow intellect, that is illusion of knowledge, is untreatable and quite dangerous to the progress and wellbeing of humanity. — Abhijit Naskar

If you think it so easy to be a critic, so difficult to be a poet or a painter or film experimenter, may I suggest you try both? You may discover why there are so few critics, so many poets. — Pauline Kael

To be sighted in the land of the blind carries its own perils. — Frank Herbert

Forget about weird Boy and move on — Laura J. Burns

One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this. — Miguel De Cervantes

She [Sidonie Rougon] never spoke of her husband, nor of her childhood, her family, or her personal concerns. There was only one thing she never sold, and that was herself. — Emile Zola

The past isn't going to get you to your goal. — Junior Seau

It is a river of ideas from which I fish out sounds that make my soul happy. — Michal Lapaj

There are no traffic jams when you go the extra mile. — Zig Ziglar

The allies we gain by victory will turn against us upon the bare whisper of our defeat. — Napoleon Bonaparte

The prevailing view has been that the market will earn a high rate of return if the holding period is long enough, but entry point is what really matters. — Seth Klarman