First Quotes (4)
Imprimisque hominis est propria veri inquisitio atque investigatio.
The first duty of man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.
The first duty of man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.
De Officiis I., 4, 18. In Thomas Benfield Harbottle, Dictionary of Quotations (classical) (3rd Ed., 1906), 98.
Genius always gives its best at first, prudence at last.
Louis Klopsch, Many Thoughts of Many Minds (1896), 105.
The first and last thing which is required of genius is the love of truth.
Louis Klopsch, Many Thoughts of Many Minds (1896), 106.
The puritanical potentialities of science have never been forecast. If it evolves a body of organized rites, and is established as a religion, hierarchically organized, things more than anything else will be done in the name of 'decency.' The coarse fumes of tobacco and liquors, the consequent tainting of the breath and staining of white fingers and teeth, which is so offensive to many women, will be the first things attended to.
Wyndham Lewis: an Anthology of his Prose (1969), 170.
See also: | Breath (7) | Establish (3) | Evolution (229) | Finger (3) | Hierarchy (2) | Organization (10) | Potential (3) | Puritan (2) | Religion (68) | Stain (3) | Teeth (5) | Tobacco (3) | Woman (18)
