Quotes of: Ralph-waldo-emerson Keyword

Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves.

Aaron Swartz

I'm sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power.

Alice Walker

To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

Baruch Spinoza

Dance is just like film in that it allows for thoughts in movement.

Twyla Tharp

I think it's important for one to take a certain distance from oneself.

Vaclav Havel

If utopian fiction became the new trend, I wouldn't read it.

Veronica Roth

A deranged person is supposed to have the strength of ten men. I have the strength of one small boy... with polio.

Woody Allen

I started writing short fiction very briefly, as I imagine is the case for some novelists.

William Gibson

All I knew was that I was writing something out of my very guts, and that I was content.

Winston Graham

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

William James

An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.

William James

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.

William James

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.

William James

Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.

William James

A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.

William James

In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient.

William James

The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

Willie Nelson

Belief in God, without belief in the Prophet (SAWW), would still be unbelief.

Wasif Ali Wasif

I was raised in a tribal situation, among cannibal people.

William P. Young

When meeting difficult situations, one should dash forward bravely and with joy.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

Every once in a while I feel the tremendous force of the novel. But it does not stay with me.

Zane Grey