Quotes of: Napoleon Keyword

There are few things more dangerous in a democracy than allowing a President to wage secret wars without the knowledge of the country.

Glenn Greenwald

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

H. G. Wells

If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological representation to apply to that society.

Jean-Francois Lyotard

Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.

Karen Armstrong

A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.

Milan Kundera

Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.

Nate Silver

He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

Raoul Vaneigem

Knowledge is a beautiful thing, but there are a few things I wish I didn't know.

Susan Orlean

The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

The vast knowledge we have to prevent cancer, heart disease, and other chronic illnesses is staggering.

Tom Rath

There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.

Walter Lippmann

I can't say that I've changed anybody's life, ever, and that's the real work of the world, if you want a better society.

Charles Kuralt

Our social life is literally primal, in the sense that chimpanzees and gorillas, our closest relatives among the primates, are also social.

Clay Shirky

I think there's a point at which you know how you dress isn't going to affect how much you do in life.

Diane Sawyer

My favorite thing is still journalism. I'm almost 50. This has been my life ever since I was in college.

David Talbot

When you're a crime reporter, you see the nub of what life's about, and you don't have much patience for the falsity of politics.

Heather Brooke

Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

Helen Rowland

I think everybody in news understands that the audience that watches for more than an hour is not your target audience - because those people are on life support.

John Hockenberry

Life is rough for a lot of people. Some people live in greater material circumstances than others, but life is rough for everybody.

Karl Rove

I don't think his life has been in any way disfigured by the film. The film did disclose some difficult facts.

Martin Bashir