Indispensable Quotes

382 quotes by 306 authors

Intense interest in any subject is indispensable if you're really going to excel in it. — Charlie Munger
The employer class is less indispensable in the modern organization of industries because the laboring men themselves possess sufficient intelligence to organize into co-operative relation… — Leland Stanford
A city's art must give the impression that art is as indispensable a thing as water, or food. — Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
Friends are an indispensable part of a meaningful life. They are the ones who share our burdens and multiply our blessings. A true friend sticks… — Beverly LaHaye
Charm" â€” which means the power to effect work without employing brute force â€” is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as… — Havelock Ellis
The constant habit of perusing devout books is so indispensable, that it has been termed the oil of the lamp of prayer. Too much reading,… — Hannah More
Community, then, is an indispensable term in any discussion of the connection between people and land. A healthy community is a form that includes all… — Wendell Berry
Good teachers are to education what education is to all other professionsâ€”the indispensable element, the sunlight and oxygen, the foundation on which everything else is… — Lowell Milken
Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularity is indispensable to the creations of the imagination. — Thomas B. Macaulay
Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularly is indispensable to the creations of the imagination. In proportion as men know more and… — Thomas B. Macaulay
Every work of art has one indispensable mark ... the center of it is simple, however much the fulfillment may be complicated. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
If people insist that honor is dearer than life itself, what they really mean is that existence and well-being are as nothing compared with other… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle. — Malcolm X
The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opponents than from his fervent supporters. For… — Walter Lippmann
Only perhaps in the United States, which alone of countries can do without governing,every man being at least able to live, and move off into… — Thomas Carlyle
Poetry is indispensable --if I only knew what for. — Jean Cocteau
For me, America is really, truly the indispensable nation. — Madeleine Albright
I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave. — Madeleine Albright
There is no indispensable man. The government will not collapse and go to pieces if any one of the gentlemen who are seeking to be… — Woodrow Wilson
There is a limit to the legitimate interference of collective opinion with individual independence: and to find that limit, and maintain it against encroachment, is… — John Stuart Mill

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