Indispensable Quotes
382 quotes by 306 authors
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I knew of no instruction manual for reaching a higher level of humanity and a greater wisdom. But I felt intuitively that laughter was the…
— Ingrid Betancourt
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Thought Of equality- as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself- as if it were not indispensable to my…
— Walt Whitman
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Art is not, as the metaphysicians say, the manifestation of some mysterious idea of beauty or God; it is not, as the aesthetical physiologists say,…
— Leo Tolstoy
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Knowledge exists in two forms - lifeless, stored in books, and alive, in the consciousness of men. The second form of existence is after all…
— Albert Einstein
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Sleep is a daily reminder from God that we are not God. Once a day God sends us to bed like patients with a sickness.…
— John Piper
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It made him feel indispensable and needed - even if the fact that Jocelyn didn't appear to care wheather he slept in her daughter's bed…
— Cassandra Clare
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We must understand that God does not "love" us without liking us - through gritted teeth - as "Christian" love is sometimes thought to do.…
— Dallas Willard
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Even when we're with someone we love, we're foolish enough to think of her body and soul as being separate. To stand before the person…
— Yukio Mishima
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Oh, Will Henry. After all we have been through, how could I send you away now, at our most critical hour? You are indispensable to…
— Rick Yancey
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Consequently, citizen legislators, rotating back to their communities after a short period of public service—considered an indispensable and routine characteristic and design of representative government…
— Mark Levin
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How do we create a harmonious society out of so many kinds of people? The key is tolerance -- the one value that is indispensable…
— Barbara Jordan
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Faith is indispensable, and the world at times does not seem to have quite enough of it. It can and has accomplished what seems to…
— Carl Sandburg
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Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival.
— Hannah Arendt
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Economic freedom is ... an indispensable means toward the achievement of political freedom.
— Milton Friedman
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History is an indispensable even though not the highest form of intellectual endeavor.
— Carl L. Becker
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The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running.
— Simone Weil
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Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must…
— Erik Erikson
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The leader personifies the certitude of the creed and the defiance and grandeur of power. He articulates and justifies the resentment damned up in the…
— Eric Hoffer
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In an age where community involvement and partnerships with civil society are increasingly being recognized as indispensable, there is clearly a growing potential for cooperative…
— Kofi Annan
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We also learn that this country and the Western world have no monopoly of goodness and truth and scholarship, we begin to appreciate the ingredients…
— John Hope Franklin
Who Wrote These Indispensable Quotes
306 authors contributed a total of 382 Indispensable Quotes, led by these top contributors: