Quotes of: Ralph-waldo-emerson Keyword

Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

H. C. Bailey

The process of philosophic and scientific enlightenment has shaken the stability of beliefs held explicitly as articles of faith.

Michael Polanyi

I think poetry's always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have.

Natasha Trethewey

At least the fundamentalists haven't tried to dilute their message. Their faith is exposed for what it is for all to see.

Richard Dawkins

Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god, but a great rock, and the sun a hot rock.

Anaxagoras

God loves to help him who strives to help himself.

Aeschylus

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

Heraclitus

But this will not do, God will certainly punish you for stealing and for being unfaithful.

Jupiter Hammon

One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god.

Jean Rostand

God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.

Meister Eckhart

Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.

Bernard Williams

Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.

Alan Alda

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.

Aldous Huxley

The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.

Augustus Hare

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

Charles Bukowski

Ian Fleming was my cousin, you know. He was in naval intelligence.

Christopher Lee

Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.

Henri Bergson

Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

Henry David Thoreau

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

J. K. Rowling

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

Leonardo da Vinci