283 Quotations with Prefer.
- 161. Aristotle: Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

- 162. P.K. Shaw: Some people prefer to keep their foot in a bog so they don't risk falling over.

- 163. Ernest Hemingway: Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as e ...

- 164. Ernest Hemingway: Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as e ...

- 165. Francois de La Rochefoucauld: The attachment or indifference to life that philosophers have shown is simply a ...

- 166. Aldous Huxley: The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self- ...

- 167. Thomas Carlyle: The condition of the most passionate enthusiast is to be preferred over the indi ...

- 168. Thomas Carlyle: The condition of the most passionate enthusiast is to be preferred over the indi ...

- 169. Benjamin Haydon: The explanation of the propensity of the English people to portrait painting is ...

- 170. Zen Saying: The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences.

- 171. Agatha Christie: The human mind prefers to be spoon-fed with the thoughts of others, but deprived ...

- 172. Erich Fromm: The kind of relatedness to the world may be noble or trivial, but even being rel ...

- 173. Allan Bloom: The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferre ...

- 174. Abraham Lincoln: The Lord prefers common looking people. That is why he made so many of them.

- 175. Gilbert K. Chesterton: The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to eve ...

- 176. Alice Walker: The original "crime" of "niggers" and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.

- 177. Ludwig Feuerbach: The present age prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the origina ...

- 178. Maimonides: The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.

- 179. Samuel Johnson: The Supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things -- the power to ...

- 180. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: The use of knowledge in our sex (beside the amusement of solitude) is to moderat ...

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