apophthegm

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To collect and arrange facts is, as he tells us, the sole secret of his success, and he adds in other words the famous apophthegm of Newton, “hypotheses non fingo.”

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" by Various

On literary réclame, he says much that is true—if not the whole truth, in the apophthegm for instance, 'You have to become famous before you can secure the attention which would give fame.'

From The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories by Gissing, George

That this apophthegm of Macintosh should have been quoted and requoted as it has, shows how profound has been the ignorance of social science.

From Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I by Spencer, Herbert

In this passage the apophthegm is incorrectly attributed to Archidamus the Third, although the Peloponnesian war is mentioned in connexion with it.782.Thuc.

From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 1 of 2 by Müller, Karl Otfried

A proverb is distinguished from a maxim or an apophthegm by that brevity which condenses a thought or a metaphor, where one thing is said and another is to be applied.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Disraeli, Isaac