Mark Quotes

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. (Aristotle)
The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly. View quote
Richard Bach
To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius. View quote
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunderstorm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols. View quote
Thomas Mann
Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
Immortality is to live your life doing good things, and leaving your mark begind. View quote
Brandon Lee
It is necessary to mark the greater from the lesser truth: namely the larger and more liberal idea of nature from the comparatively narrow and confined; namely that which addresses itself to the imagination from that which is solely addressed to the eye. View quote
J. M. W. Turner
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love. View quote
Washington Irving
Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside. View quote
William S. Burroughs
I don't have a big thing about leaving my mark or being historic. View quote
Fiona Apple
Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be. (Robert Browning)
Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. View quote
Richard Bach
What do you mean by faith? Is faith enough for Man? Should he be satisfied with faith alone? Is there no way of finding out the truth? Is the attitude of faith, of believing in something for which there can be no more than philosophic proof, the true mark of a Christian? View quote
Clifford D. Simak
One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories. View quote
Jean de La Bruyère
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. View quote
Bertrand Russell
To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium. View quote
Arthur C. Clarke
We aim above the mark to hit the mark. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark. View quote
Michelangelo
O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken! View quote
Walter Scott
It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants. (Honoré de Balzac)
Japan is the only country in the world to have suffered the ravages of atomic bombing. That experience left an indelible mark on the hearts of our people, making them passionately determined to renounce all wars. View quote
Eisaku Sato
Unrest of spirit is a mark of life. View quote
Karl Menninger
The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind. View quote
Felix Frankfurter
The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson