Thus Quotes

An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men. (Charles Darwin)
It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct espionage against you and to bribe them to serve you. Give them instructions and care for them. Thus doubled agents are recruited and used. View quote
Sun Tzu
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes. View quote
Confucius
God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us. View quote
Niccolò Machiavelli
Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism. View quote
Friedrich Schlegel
Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered. View quote
Harriet Martineau
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe. View quote
Albert Einstein
Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy. View quote
Sun Tzu
The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death constantly visits his thoughts and is thus an image of a serene dialogue. View quote
Salvatore Quasimodo
In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
Shared pain is lessened; shared joy, increased - thus do we refute entropy. (Spider Robinson)
As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of imbeciles. If they once understand themselves the ruling men will be lost. View quote
Ernest Renan
It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling. View quote
Pierre Bayle
Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose. View quote
William Cowper
Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure, Married in haste, we may repent at leisure. View quote
William Congreve
What now on the other hand makes people sociable is their incapacity to endure solitude and thus themselves. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown. View quote
Frances Wright
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped. View quote
Elbert Hubbard
The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety. View quote
Sigmund Freud
The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish. View quote
Milan Kundera
It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous. (Charles Dudley Warner)
All human knowledge thus begins with intuitions, proceeds thence to concepts, and ends with ideas. View quote
Immanuel Kant
The Phrygians select a natural hillock, run a trench through the middle of it, dig passages, and extend the interior space as widely as the site admits. Over it they build a pyramidal roof of logs fastened together, and this they cover with reeds and brushwood, heaping up very high mounds of earth above their dwellings. Thus their fashion in houses makes their winters very warm and their summers very cool. View quote
Vitruvius
Thus by such victory, not by machines but in oppositions to the principle to the principles of machines, has the freedom of states been preserved by the cunning of architects. View quote
Vitruvius
Apollo at Delphi, through the oracular utterance of his priestess, pronounced Socrates the wisest of men. Of him it is related that he said with sagacity and great learning that the human breast should have been furnished with open windows, so that men might not keep their feelings concealed, but have them open to the view. Oh that nature, following his idea, had constructed them thus unfolded and obvious to the view. View quote
Vitruvius