(184 quotes found)
“I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us.”
Thomas Jefferson
“Laughter without a tinge of philosophy is but a sneeze of humor. Genuine humor is replete with wisdom.”
Mark Twain
“Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or burglars. Accordingly, they invent systems which make the future calculable, at least in its main outlines.”
Bertrand Russell
“Academic chairs are many, but wise and noble teachers are few; lecture-rooms are numerous and large, but the number of young people who genuinely thirst after truth and justice is small.”
Albert Einstein
“The genuine artist is never ''true to life'.' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.”
Wallace Stevens
“A genuine expert can always foretell a thing that is 500 years away easier than he can a thing that's only 500 seconds off”
“Genuine bon mots surprise those from whose lips they fall, no less than they do those who listen to them”
Joseph Joubert
“When you give them a certificate at graduation, you can see in their eyes a genuine want to stay away from substance abuse.”
Casimir Adulewicz
“There's the real and the genuine, and there's the phony.”
Benny Hinn
“Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces”
Austin O'Malley
