(412 quotes found)
“A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.”
Wallace Stegner
“An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject, and how to avoid them”
Werner Karl Heisenberg
“I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me.”
Ernest Hemingway
“Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject.”
A. A. Milne
“There are three things to aim at in public speaking: first, to get into your subject, then to get your subject into yourself, and lastly, to get your subject into the heart of your audience”
Alexander Gregg
“In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity”
Chamfort
“There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.”
Carl Sandburg
“I have written on all sorts of subjects . . . yet I have no enemies; except indeed all the Whigs, all the Tories, and all the Christians.”
David Hume
“It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject; the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to enterprise, thought, and perception of an individual.”
Alexander Fleming
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