Top 22 William Warburton Quotes
#2. High birth is a thing which I never knew any one to disparage except those who had it not; and I never knew any one to make a boast of it who had anything else to be proud of.
William Warburton
#3. Without enthusiasm, the adventurer could never kindle that fire in his followers which is so necessary to consolidate their mutual interests; for no one can heartily deceive numbers who is not first of all deceived himself.
William Warburton
#4. Admiration is one of the most bewitching, enthusiastic passions of the mind; and every common moralist knows that it arises from novelty and surprise, the inseparable attendants of imposture.
William Warburton
#6. When the voices of democracy are silenced, freedom becomes a hollow concept. No man or woman should be sentenced to the shadows of silence for something he or she has said or written.
Al Neuharth
#7. You suppose you are the trouble
But you are the cure
You suppose that you are the lock on the door
But you are the key that opens it
It's too bad that you want to be someone else
You don't see your own face, your own beauty
Yet, no face is more beautiful than yours.
Rumi
#9. Short isolated sentences were the mode in which ancient Wisdom delighted to convey its precepts, for the regulation of life and manners.
William Warburton
#10. If we get better our customers will demand we get bigger.
S. Truett Cathy
#11. From an evolutionary point of view, most emotions - fear, desire, anger - serve some practical purpose, but nostalgia is a useless, futile thing because it is a longing for something that is permanently lost ...
David Nicholls
#12. The Egyptians, by the concurrent testimony of antiquity, were among the first who taught that the soul was immortal.
William Warburton
#13. Resolve, and thou art free. But breathe the air
Of mountains, and their unapproachable summits
Will lift thee to the level of themselves.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#14. Actually, I came here because of Skipper." "That was awfully nice! How's he doing? I'm going
Dorothea Benton Frank
#15. Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth.
William Warburton
#16. I showed it is possible to fly a little bit like a bird.
Yves Rossy
#17. I always put in one controversial item. It makes people talk.
Dorothy Draper
#18. Fanaticism is a fire, which heats the mind indeed, but heats without purifying. It stimulates and ferments all the passions; but it rectifies none of them.
William Warburton
#19. The skilful disputant well knows that he never has his enemy at more advantage than when, by allowing the premises, he shows him arguing wrong from his own principles.
William Warburton
#20. Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment.
William Warburton
#21. Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#22. A lie has no legs, and cannot stand; but it has wings, and can fly far and wide.
William Warburton
