Quotes of: Edgar Keyword

When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

Plutarch

The superstitious man wishes he did not believe in gods, as the atheist does not, but fears to disbelieve in them.

Plutarch

Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.

Plutarch

I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be; and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised.

Plutarch

Frost isn't exactly despised but not enough people have worked out what a brilliant poet he was.

Paul Muldoon

I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between the external and the internal.

A. R. Ammons

Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.

A. R. Ammons

Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.

A. R. Ammons

The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country.

Robert Baden-Powell

Popularity isn't just something that happens. You have to give something in exchange for it, and that's the dangerous part of the process.

Robert Bringhurst

The awful thing, as a kid reading, was that you came to the end of the story, and that was it. I mean, it would be heartbreaking that there was no more of it.

Robert Creeley

Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun.

Richard Dawkins

My personal feeling is that understanding evolution led me to atheism.

Richard Dawkins

The very idea of supernatural magic - including miracles - is incoherent, devoid of sensible meaning.

Richard Dawkins

A native speaker of English who has never read a word of the King James Bible is verging on the barbarian.

Richard Dawkins

Nico Tinbergen was my doctoral supervisor, and he was a benign, avuncular sort of influence; everybody loved him.

Richard Dawkins

Sometimes I think it's possible to mistake desire for clarity and talking in a no-nonsense way for aggression.

Richard Dawkins

I am very comfortable with the idea that we can override biology with free will.

Richard Dawkins

How can you take seriously someone who likes to believe something because he finds it 'comforting'?

Richard Dawkins

Teachers who help to open young minds perform a duty which is as near sacred as I will admit.

Richard Dawkins

A universe with a creator would be a totally different kind of universe, scientifically speaking, than one without.

Richard Dawkins