Indispensable Quotes

382 quotes by 306 authors

What is indispensable to inspiration? ...sound sleep and the provocation of a good book or a companion. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
You have confidence in yourself, which is valuable, if not an indispensable quality. — Abraham Lincoln
Whatever job you take on, make yourself valuable, then indispensable. — Brian Tracy
We're important, but not essential; valuable, but not indispensable. We have a part in the play, but we are not the main act. A song… — Max Lucado
Physical exercise is indispensable to the development of body, and quite as certainly is spiritual activity requisite to the healthful and normal development of the… — James E. Talmage
The liberal arts are the arts of communication and thinking. â€˜They are the arts indispensable to further learning, for they are the arts of reading,… — Oliver DeMille
The mere understanding, however useful and indispensable, is the meanest faculty in the human mind and the most to be distrusted. — Thomas de Quincey
As to religion, I hold it to be the indispensable duty of all government to protect all conscientious professors thereof, and I know of no… — Thomas Paine
I believe that a guarantee of public access to government information is indispensable in the long run for any democratic society.... if officials make public… — Sissela Bok
Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism is an indispensable element… — Theodor Adorno
To the pure geometer the radius of curvature is an incidental characteristic - like the grin of the Cheshire cat. To the physicist it is… — Arthur Eddington
Among the multitudes will be found many who cannot discriminate between what is merely wanted and what is needed, what is necessary for bare subsistence… — Kenny Smith
Instead of looking on discussion as a stumbling block in the way of action, we think it an indispensable preliminary to any wise action at… — Pericles
If he [the Artist] were to take up the pen it would be...to better express his individuality and explain it to others; or else to… — Witold Gombrowicz
My central arms control objective has been to reduce substantially and ultimately to eliminate nuclear weapons and rid the world of the nuclear threat. The… — Ronald Reagan
Redundancy is expensive but indispensable. — Jane Jacobs
Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten. A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with a cloak of… — Martin Luther
No doubt a man may be saved, like the penitent thief, without having received the Lord's Supper. It is not a matter of absolute and… — J C Ryle
And whatever their publicized angst over Saddam Hussein's 'weapons of mass destruction,' American and British authorities were also concerned about violence in an area that… — Alan Greenspan
Probably no branch of mathematics has experienced a more surprising growth than has... topology... Considered as a most specialized and abstract subject in the early… — Raymond Louis Wilder

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