Often - Quotes
From the saintly and single-minded idealist to the fanatic is often but a step.
Often when he looked at the multidude of wares exposed for sale, [Socrates] would say to himself, "How many things I can do without!"
All too often I write to find out what I think about a subject, not because I already know.
Often death takes us before we have had the chance to taste love because when love is right in front of us we were too busy looking for it elsewhere.
Young people often change their minds because they think they have all the time in the world.
It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often, it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends.
If you don`t know anything about computers, just remember that they are machines that do exactly what you tell them but often surprise you in the result.
What we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.
False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for everyone takes a salutory pleasure in proving their falseness; and when this is done, one path toward errors is closed and the road to truth is often at the same time opened.
The less competent a person is in a given domain, the more he will tend to overestimate his abilities. This often produces an ugly marriage of confidence and ignorance that is very difficult to correct for.
Philosophers are never quite sure what they are talking about - about what the issues really are - and so it often takes them rather a long time to recognize that someone with a somewhat different approach (or destination, or starting point) is making a contribution.
In truth, the degree of anyone`s success depends on how often they can say the word yes and hear the word no.
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.