Quotes of: Ralph-waldo-emerson Keyword

To be interested in the public good we must be disinterested, that is, not interested in goods in which our personal selves are wrapped up.

George Herbert Mead

It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it.

Hannah Cowley

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

H. L. Mencken

Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?

Ivan Turgenev

There is nothing in nature wherein there is not good and evil; everything moveth and liveth in this double impulse, working or operation, be it what it will.

Jakob Bohme

Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.

John Dewey

Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good.

John Charles Polanyi

I think jogging is bad for your health. All that pressure on the knees and back cannot be good for you.

Kazuo Ishiguro

It's enormously cheering to get a good review by someone who seems to understand your work.

Kenneth Koch

That's what makes Linux so good: you put in something, and that effort multiplies. It's a positive feedback cycle.

Linus Torvalds

Nobody sounds good writing about your divorce, let's face it.

Mary Karr

You can have meaning, accomplishment, engagement and good relationships, even if you are dull on the positive affect side.

Martin Seligman

It is not true that good can only follow from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true.

Max Weber

Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land.

Philip James Bailey

When the divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low.

Ramakrishna

To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.

Richard Whately

The more painful it is, tragically, the more you do learn, though, that's the good part.

Sylvia Browne

Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.

Samuel Pepys

To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.

Sophocles

Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.

Sophocles