Quotes of: Ralph-waldo-emerson Keyword

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.

Walter Savage Landor

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

William Wordsworth

A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.

Annie Dillard

If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the objective world and the linguistic world is found in structure, and structure alone.

Alfred Korzybski

One person alone can't do anything as important as bringing genuine democracy to a country.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

How one hates to think of oneself as alone. How one avoids it. It seems to imply rejection or unpopularity.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I can barely remember what I wrote yesterday, let alone 10 years ago.

Andrew Sullivan

At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.

Boris Pasternak

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

Baruch Spinoza

A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being.

Daniel Dennett

This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.

David Hume

In the laughing times we know that we are lucky, and in the quiet times we know that we are blessed. And we will not be alone.

Dar Williams

One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.

Edward Abbey

Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

Eric Hoffer

The struggle is so great that the triumph over fascism alone is worth the sacrifice of our lives.

Federica Montseny

Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it; but the free-thinker alone is truly free.

George Berkeley

When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.

Gertrude Stein

The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive; its organization is necessarily tyrannical.

Henry George

I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.

J. J. Abrams

Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created.

Jacob Bronowski