« All Foundation Quotes · Ralph Waldo Emerson's Page
Foundation Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary.
- What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history, letters, art, and poetry, in all its periods, from the Heroic or…
- I am not engaged to Christianity by decent forms, or saving ordinances; it is not usage, it is not what I do not understand, that…
- The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit.
More Foundation Quotes
- Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up. — Mary Astell
- Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of… — Saint Augustine
- Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot… — Saint Augustine
- Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first… — Saint Augustine
- We cannot build foundations of a state without rule of law. — Mahmoud Abbas
- A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too… — Sai Baba
- Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy. — Ibrahim Babangida
- I think it's really terrifying that a country based on the foundations and ideals of God, is now systematically removing God from… — Stephen Baldwin
- When you have a spiritual foundation, you look at poverty differently then. — Dennis Banks
- Fear is the foundation of most governments. — John Adams
- We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself. — Jean Baudrillard
- Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality. — Henry Ward Beecher