Eminent Quotes

112 Eminent quotes by 100 unique authors

And as for the Jews, who since the emancipation of their sect have everywhere put themselves, at least in the person of their eminent representatives,… — Karl Marx
It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the… — Alfred North Whitehead
The priesthood of God has become the eminent power for good in the world. We are no longer a handful of people on the fringes… — James E. Faust
I never said a word against eminent men of science. What I complain of is a vague popular philosophy which supposes itself to be scientific… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Back in the 1930s, Carl Jung, the eminent thinker and psychologist, put it this way: Criticism has 'the power to do good when there is… — Donald O. Clifton
Canada's eminent position today is a tribute to the patience, tolerance, and strength of character of her people, of both French and British strains. For… — Harry S. Truman
[The Royal Society] is quite simply the voice of science in Britain. It is intellectually rigorous, not afraid to be outspoken on controversial issues such… — Bill Bryson
I would say here something that was heard from an ecclesiastic of the most eminent degree: The intention of the Holy Spirit is to teach… — Galileo Galilei
Through adoration, the Christian mysteriously contributes to the radical transformation of the world and to the sowing of the Gospel. Anyone who prays to the… — Pope John Paul II
A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care. — George Bernard Shaw
A generous and elevated mind is distinguished by nothing more certainly than an eminent degree of curiosity. — Samuel Johnson
But the distant hope of being one day useful or eminent ought not to mislead us too far from that study which is equally requisite… — Samuel Johnson
Those who have arrived at any very eminent degree of excellence in the practice of an art or profession have commonly been actuated by a… — John Knox
Our ancestors were very rich and eminent people, and they left us an enormous inheritance, which we have completely forgotten, especially since the time when… — P D Ouspensky
When a Caltech student asked the eminent cosmologist Michael Turner what his "bias" was in favoring one or another particle as a likely candidate to… — Richard P. Feynman
Speaking of the murder of the younger Hanan, and other eminent nobles and hierarchs, Josephus says, "I cannot but think that it was because God… — Frederic Farrar
Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Though just biographical record will touch the failings of the good and the eminent with tenderness. — Anna Seward
No, this customary aim of research by excavators is completely foreign to the historical work with which I am occupied... my sole and only aim… — Heinrich Schliemann
American history offers no parallel to the friendship between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, spanning the first half century of the Republic. . . .… — Dumas Malone
While so much is said of the inferior intellect of woman, it is by a strange absurdity conceded that very many eminent men owe their… — Matilda Joslyn Gage
Consequently, the truth of God lives in our souls more by the power of superior moral courage than by the light of an eminent intelligence.… — Thomas Merton
A man is eminent as long as he is orthodox. When he begins to think for himself he becomes a crank. — Walter Hadwen
The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all ages is -… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional. The soul always hears an admonition in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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