#only

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#ago #effect #exertion #faith #happy

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#day #dream #escape #many #night

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#against #argument #charity #christ #crime

Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything. ↗

— Henri Poincare

#everything #flash #long #nights #only

The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so. ↗

— Henri Poincare

#experience #faculty #forces #mind #only

I never had an occasion to question color, therefore, I only saw myself as what I was... a human being. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

#color #had #human #human being #i

Life is good for only two things, discovering mathematics and teaching mathematics. ↗

— Simeon Poisson

#good #life #mathematics #only #teaching

I was the only Black person on the set. It was unusual for me to be in a circumstance in which every move I made was tantamount to representation of 18 million people. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

#circumstance #every #i #made #me

Since I couldn't actuate the things that I wanted to do, the only weapon I had was to say no. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

#i #only #say #since #things

I can only say that whatever my life and work have been, I'm not envious of anyone-and this is my biggest satisfaction. ↗

— Roman Polanski

#biggest #envious #i #i can #life