Quotes of: Ralph-waldo-emerson Keyword

Free speech has been used by the Supreme Court to give immense power to the wealthiest members of our society.

Noam Chomsky

If you care about other people, you might try to organize to undermine power and authority. That's not going to happen if you care only about yourself.

Noam Chomsky

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.

Nadine Gordimer

When every physical and mental resources is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.

Norman Vincent Peale

A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else.

Pierre Corneille

Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.

Richard Dawkins

It is the Higher Power which does everything, and the man is only a tool. If he accepts that position, he is free from troubles; otherwise, he courts them.

Ramana Maharshi

The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.

Toni Morrison

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

Virginia Woolf

It's being willing to walk away that gives you strength and power - if you're willing to accept the consequences of doing what you want to do.

Whoopi Goldberg

All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.

Gustave Flaubert

I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.

Marianne Moore

Indeed, every true science has for its object the determination of certain phenomena by means of others, in accordance with the relations which exist between them.

Auguste Comte

Science is telling us that we can do phenomenal things if we put our minds and our resources to it.

Anthony Fauci

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

Aldous Huxley

It is easier for a libertarian to attack the science of global warming than to alter one's core libertarian beliefs.

Al Seckel

One of the wonders of science is that it is completely universal. It crosses national boundaries with total ease.

Brian Greene

Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to the Moon, to Mars, to the stars.

Barney Oliver

That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.

Bill Watterson

My brother is a scientist. He's a professor at MIT. He brought science fiction into my world.

Chris Carter

People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.

Charles Kettering