Quotes of: Ralph-waldo-emerson Keyword

As a result of this article, I was invited to testify in the Senate Judiciary Committee on privacy law.

Norman Lamm

Those are fools however learned Who have not learned to walk with the world.

Kural

Folded hands may conceal a dagger -- Likewise a foe's tears.

Kural

Let us hold our discussion together in our own persons, making trial of the truth and of ourselves.

Protagoras

But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.

Edward Gibbon

All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates.

Frank Chodorov

How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?

Francois Rabelais

All things by immortal power. Near of far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star.

Francis Thompson

But deluded people don't realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.

Bodhidharma

If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won't see the Buddha.

Bodhidharma

People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something - always, in a word, seeking.

Bodhidharma

Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.

Niels Bohr

It is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster' every original inexhaustible beauty.

Alfred Jarry

Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.

Annie Besant

I think writers tend to be experience junkies, and I think they also tend to want to be on the outside looking in.

Augusten Burroughs

The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.

Angela Carter

In ways I don't entirely have the words for, an experience, thought or a lesson isn't real for me until I've written down.

Alexandra Fuller

Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience.

August Wilson

It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt.

Plutarch

The dilemma for society is how to preserve personal and family values in a nation of diverse tastes.

Tipper Gore

I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.

Tamora Pierce