I have great faith in fools; self-confidence, my friends call it.
Quote by Edgar Allan Poe
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I have great faith in fools; self-confidence, my friends call it.
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Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
- Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.
- Sleep, those little slices of death, how I loathe them.
- Children are never too tender to be whipped. Like tough beefsteaks, the more you beat them, the more tender they become.
- It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve.
- Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
- Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
- Take this kiss upon the brow And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow-- You are not wrong who deem That my days have been a dream Yet if hope has flown away In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream.
- All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
- I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
- Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
Best Quotes
- One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
- Willem de Kooning is generally credited for coming out of the painterly gates strong in the forties, revolutionizing art and abstraction and reaching incredible heights by the early fifties, and then tailing off.
- We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.
- Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves.
- A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.
- You've just got to have a sense of respect for the person you have children with. Anger doesn't help anybody. Ultimately you have to say forgiveness is important, and honoring what you had together is important. But it's easy to say and harder to do.
- Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
- There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.
- It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.
- Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.