Eloquence is the poetry of prose.
William Cullen Bryant
What Are Eloquent Quotations?
They are quotations that stand out in terms of their eloquence; and what makes them special is the manner and style in which their meanings are expressed. They are more colorful and appealing in style than plain prose quotations, as they express meanings with flair, imagination, and creativity. They are:
CREATIVELY EXPRESSED. They use original and colorful imagery, appealing figures of speech, and clever variations of word order.
ENGAGING. They capture your attention and make you think. They inspire curiosity and interpretive interest, as their meanings can sometimes be challenging to figure out.
INSIGHTFUL. Their meanings, once grasped, resonate with your personal experience and intuitive knowledge. They serve to expand your understanding of and interest in fascinating themes about life.
Ten Eloquent Quotations
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1. “Not everything that counts can be counted and not everything that can be counted counts.” William Bruce Cameron
A plain prose version: The value of something does not depend on whether or not it can be quantified.
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2. “The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it’s that they know so many things that just aren’t so.” Mark Twain
A plain prose version: A problem today is that many things people believe to be true are actually false.
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3. “We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.” T.S. Eliot
A plain prose version: How we understand ourselves changes over time, which leads to reinterpretations of our pasts in light of how we newly view ourselves.
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4. “The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.” Jean Cocteau
A plain prose version: Without a purpose, our actions lack meaning.
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5. “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” Maya Angelou
A plain prose version: The thing that people will remember most about you has to do with the impact you had on their feelings. .
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6. “Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.” Kahlil Gibran
A plain prose version: Painful experiences increase your understanding of things you previously had not paid attention to or appreciated.
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7. “Some things have to be believed to be seen.” Ralph Hodgson
A plain prose version: Some things can be seen only because you have faith, and not because you have perceived them with your eyes.
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8. “The greatest of all miracles is that we need not be tomorrow what we are today. The greatest of all insights is that we cannot be tomorrow what we do not do today. That is why today matters. John C., Maxwell
A plain prose version: You can improve yourself by working at it, but only if you actually get started.
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9. “I met on the street a very poor man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, and the stars through his soul.” Victor Hugo
A plain prose version: On a rainy evening I met a poorly dressed man on the street whose appearance and demeanor indicated that he was in love.
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10. “A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth glancing at.” Oscar Wilde
A plain prose version: A view of life that does not include a vision of things that could be vastly improved or ideal would be totally uninteresting.
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11. “If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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12. “A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.” Leo Tolstoy
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13. “Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.” Benjamin Disraeli
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14. “Is it progress if a cannibal uses a knife and fork? ” Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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15. “Close one sad eye. Yes. Close the other sad eye. Yes. I can see now.” Yehuda Amichai
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16. “I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse’s good nature that. I am not thrown off at this very moment ” Ludwig Wittgenstein
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17. “Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” Truman Capote
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18. “A book is a dream that you hold in your hand.” Neil Gaiman
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19. “For me, looking back is akin to being on a tightrope and looking down. It doesn’t help you in the present moment to deal with what you have to deal with in order to move forward.” The Edge
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20. “Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.” Mary Oliver
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