Quotes of: Ralph-waldo-emerson Keyword

We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.

Max Beerbohm

There is no reason we should expect young children to enter the nocturnal darkness of sleep and dreams without help.

Siri Hustvedt

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

Virginia Woolf

Language, philosophy, and science are interwoven into the design of words, which are manipulated to create surprising illusions.

John Langdon

But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?

Mary Astell

Education, and I regret to say this as an educator, but there's no indication that education has a direct effect on happiness.

Derek Bok

If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included.

A. R. Ammons

One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.

Ramakrishna

Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge.

Aime Cesaire

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

Confucius

The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

Edith Wharton

A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.

George Herbert

Obvious enough that generalities work to protect the mind from the great outdoors; is it possible that this was in fact their first purpose?

Howard Nemerov

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.

John Locke

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.

John Ruskin

There cannot be any impediment to science that will ultimately be good to the general public.

Anthony Fauci

Never underestimate the intelligence of the audience; make good programmes, and they will come.

Armando Iannucci

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

Baruch Spinoza

Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.

Baruch Spinoza

The Book of Mormon is our handbook of instructions as we travel the pathway from bad to good to better and strive to have our hearts changed.

David A. Bednar

Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.

Francis Quarles