A Quote by Alexander Pushkin

Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.

Alexander Pushkin

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Better Illusions Ten Than Thousand Truths Us

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Alexander Pushkin
Russian - Novelist
June 6, 1799 - February 10, 1837

The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.

Anton Chekhov

It is better to be on hand with ten men than absent with ten thousand.

Timur

A thousand acres that can feed a thousand souls is better than ten thousand acres of no more effect.

William Petty

If I only have ten minutes, Sam, this is what I want to say. You're not the best of us. You're more than that. You're better than all of us. If I only have ten minutes, I would tell you to go out there and live. I'd say...please take your guitar and sing your songs to as many people as you can. Please fold a thousand more of those damn birds of yours. Please kiss that girl a million times.

Maggie Stiefvater

To become a chess grandmaster also seems to take about ten years. (Only the legendary Bobby Fisher got to that elite level in less than that amount of time: it took him nine years.) And what's ten years? Well, it's roughly how long it takes to put in ten thousand hours of hard practice. Ten thousand hours is the magic number of greatness.

Malcolm Gladwell

Better a child should be ignorant of a thousand truths than have consecrated in its heart a single lie.

John Ruskin

Illusions are the truths we live by until we know better.

Nancy Gibbs

Better than a thousand hollow words Is one word that brings peace. Better than a thousand hollow verses Is one verse that brings peace. Better than a hundred hollow lines Is one line of the dharma, bringing peace. It is better to conquer yourself Than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, Not by angels or by demons, Heaven or hell.

Gautama Buddha

Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.

Joseph Addison

Better to die ten thousand deaths, Than wound my honour.

Joseph Addison

It is probably well on the conservative side to estimate that during the past ten to fifteen years the camera has destroyed a thousand pairs of eyes, corrupted ten thousand, and seriously deceived a hundred thousand, for every one pair that it has opened, and taught.

James Agee

Walking around with less than ten thousand dollars is completely unacceptable. It's a necessity of life. It gives you freedom. The most important thing in life is a sense of possibility, and you simply can't have it with less than ten thousand dollars in your pocket.

Rocco Landesman

Everyone can probably do at least one thing better than ten thousand other people.

Marcus Buckingham

It's only illusions that destroy us. It's illusions that convince us that we can't. It's the illusions of the transient that tell us that all this matters.