#seldom

My dad used to say, 'You wouldn't worry so much about what people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did. ↗

— Phil McGraw

#dad #did #how #knew #much

Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#often #opinions #palpable #popular #seldom

What is the use of good painting? We want a spell cast upon the optical part of our existence! We seldom really see the world, but when we do, we become as still as a picture. ↗

— Robert Musil

#cast #existence #good #optical #our

Heroes always make the right decision; I find that seldom happens in my life. ↗

— Judd Nelson

#decision #find #happens #heroes #i

Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment. ↗

— Wendell Phillips

#concealment #ever #given #grace #impart

It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity. ↗

— Quintilian

#ever #genius #happens #maturity #premature

A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#dinner #does #earnestness #his #man

The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#dimly #dreams #man #realities #seems

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up. ↗

— George Santayana

#creative #mankind #periods #prolific #seldom

Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them. ↗

— George Santayana

#enslave #free #instruments #seldom #their