Indispensable Quotes

382 quotes by 306 authors

The learned languages are indispensable to form the gentleman and the scholar, and are well worth all the labor that they have cost us, provided… — Charles Caleb Colton
May it not be asked of every intelligent friend to the liberties of his country, whether the power exercised in such an act as this… — James Madison
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything. — John Kenneth Galbraith
Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a… — John Kenneth Galbraith
Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education. — Mahatma Gandhi
The graveyards are full of indispensable men. — Charles de Gaulle
So if a college education is indispensable, the challenge as I see it is how to make it more accessible. — Gordon Gee
What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say… — Andre Gide
A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Firefighters are indispensable foot soldiers here at home. — Christopher Dodd
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
A glance at the history of European poetry is enough to inform us that rhyme itself is not indispensable. Latin poetry in the classical age… — James Fenton
Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership. — Eric Hoffer
Some folks can look so busy doing nothing that they seem indispensable. — Kin Hubbard
Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs. — Eugene Ionesco
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. — John F. Kennedy
Democracy is indispensable to socialism. — Vladimir Lenin
In complex trains of thought signs are indispensable. — George Henry Lewes
Certain springs are tapped only when we are alone. Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves; that firm strand… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters. — Walter Lippmann

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