A Quote by Emile M. Cioran

Beware of thinkers whose minds function only when they are fueled by a quotation.

Emile M. Cioran

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Emile M. Cioran
Philosopher
April 8, 1911 - June 20, 1995

Beware the writer who always encloses the word *reality* in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into you.

Edward Abbey

Big thinkers are specialists in creating positive, forward-looking, optimistic pictures in their own minds and in the minds of others.

David J. Schwartz

The four cautions: Beware a woman in front of you, beware a horse behind of you, beware a cart beside of you, and beware a priest every which way.

Jamie O'Neill

America cannot function if we are a society fueled by riots.

Meghan McCain

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Minds, like parachutes, only function when they are open.

Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar

Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.

Thomas Dewar

Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.

James Dewar

I am only too aware that I am open to Rees's Second Law of Quotation: "However sure you are that you have attributed a quotation correctly, an earlier source will be pointed out to you."

Nigel Rees

There is supercomputer somewhere in the Nevada desert whose sole function is to count the number of times that I have said the following, because it is unquantifiable by human minds at this point, but this time it’s really true: I should have stayed home.

David Rakoff

In a democracy such as ours the leading minds seldom achieve a place of permanent influence. And the men who sit in Congress or even in the White House are usually not our leading minds. They are not the thinkers. Still less have they time for reflection.

Pearl S. Buck

The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than an extract. Whenever the mind of a writer is saturated with the full inspiration of a great author, a quotation gives completeness to the whole; it seals his feelings with undisputed authority.