Quotes of: Ralph-waldo-emerson Keyword

He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.

Erich Fromm

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Elbert Hubbard

I think we're miserable partly because we have only one god, and that's economics.

James Hillman

I sometimes think God allows Great Britain to be unprincipled for the good of mankind.

Julia Ward Howe

The Bible is a revelation of the mind and will of God to men. Therein we may learn, what God is.

Jupiter Hammon

I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.

Jean Ingelow

The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.

Mikhail Bakunin

He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.

Mikhail Bakunin

The thing I have to do as a writer, and that God permits me to do, is that I have to be willing to fail.

Mary Karr

Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

Francis of Assisi

Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use.

Andrea Dworkin

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Arthur Schopenhauer

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

Bertrand Russell

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

Carl Jung

It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.

Don Herold

By far, the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

George Orwell

Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I've had nothing to do with the intelligence world since I left it, in any shade or variety.

John le Carre

Human beings exercise responsibilities within a social setting and a framework of obligations which transcend the principle of intelligence.

Michael Polanyi