Quotes of: Ralph-waldo-emerson Keyword

The women's movement had already paved the way, I think, for my coming.

Sally Ride

Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.

Samuel Richardson

And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike.

Wanda Sykes

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.

Anne Bradstreet

God offers to every mind a choice between repose and truth. take which you please--you can never have both. [Essay on Intellect]

The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sex is like money; only too much is enough.

Couples

Quid autem de corporis uoluptatibus loquar, quarum appetentia quidem plena est anxietatis, satietas uero paenitentiae?

Consolation of Philosophy

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

Critique of Pure Reason

Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.

The Corrections

Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.

The Commanding Self

Better guilt than the terrible burden of freedom and responsibility.

The Denial of Death

I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.

The Diary of a Young Girl

I was raised feral, and I mostly stayed that way.

Dark Places

Pain is always a fanged serpent, but to the fearful it has a hundred heads.

A Dictionary of Thought

Great science emerges out of great contradiction.

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.

Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil

The classes were valuable, but the real education was the game.

Ender's Game

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Essential Thinkers - Socrates

Some of life's greatest calls were answered not by the head but by the body.

Flight Behavior

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Faust: First Part

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

The Fellowship of the Ring