Quotes of: Ralph-waldo-emerson Keyword

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.

Ray Bradbury

When a company seeks a new chief executive officer, or a university a new vice-chancellor, enormous trouble is taken to find the best person.

Richard Dawkins

Some of the best theorizing comes after collecting data because then you become aware of another reality.

Robert J. Shiller

The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.

Stephen Jay Gould

I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.

Thomas Love Peacock

I think that anyone who's pushed to do the very best that they can is privileged. It's a luxury.

Twyla Tharp

In any match, there are few critical moments where there's no second best decision. The rest of the moves are intuitive.

Viswanathan Anand

The degree of slowness is directionally proportional to the intensity of memory. The degree of speed is directionally proportional to the intensity of forgetting.

Slowness

By heaven, I'll make a ghost of him that lets me.

Hamlet

They were written in the early '90s when I was strapped for cash.

Jonathan Coe

You will receive everything you need when you stop asking for what you do not need

Nisargadatta Maharaj

I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.

Ogden Nash

This morning I took out a comma and this afternoon I put it back again.

Oscar Wilde

He is beginning to master wisdom when he tries to learn how not to try.

Paul Brunton

I am one of the elect, one of the few in the know, in the gnosis.

Philip K. Dick

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

Socrates

The habit of disguising ideology as expertise has created a deficit of legitimacy.

Paul Krugman

All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.

Plato

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.

Plato

Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.

Plutarch