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The epic poet has behind him a tradition of matter and a tradition of style; and that is what every other poet has behind him too; only, for the epic poet, tradition is rather narrower, rather more strictly compelling.

Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie about tradition, poets, style

There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.

Quote by Lord Acton about evolution, ignorance, things

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.

Quote by Joseph Addison about animals, wisdom, man

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about lie, truth, man

The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.

Quote by Niels Bohr about human imperfections, man

A great gulf, however, has been opened between man's material advance and his social and moral progress, a gulf in which he may one day be lost if it is not closed or narrowed.

Quote by Lester B. Pearson about progress, moral, day, man

Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.

Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about people

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Quote by Johann Gottfried von Herder about love, nothing

A superior mind is one that is close to madness, and the line between them is very narrow.

Quote by John Dryden about mind