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Interest Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge.
- I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor…
- Put God in your debt. Every stroke shall be repaid. The longer the payment is with-held, the better for you; for compound interest on compound…
- The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak…
- The great object of Education should be commensurate with the object of life. It should be a moral one; to teach self-trust: to inspire the…
- Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
- He cumbers himself never about consequences, about interests; he gives an independent, genuine verdict. You must court him: he does not court you. But the…
- 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…
- There is a third silent party to all our bargains. The nature and soul of things takes on itself the guaranty of the fulfillment of…
- And what fastens attention, in the intercourse of life, like any passage betraying affection between two parties? Perhaps we never saw them before, and never…
- There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and…
- I am at a loss to understand why people hold Miss Austen's novels at so high a rate, which seem to me vulgar in tone,…
- Go forth into the busy world and love it. Interest yourself in its life, mingle kindly with its joys and sorrows.
More Interest Quotes
- It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest… — David Attenborough
- I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how animals work. — David Attenborough
- It was regarded as a responsibility of the BBC to provide programs which have a broad spectrum of interest, and if there… — David Attenborough
- Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he… — Sai Baba
- Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility… — Irving Babbitt
- A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by… — Alain Badiou
- He who becomes a Muslim does so in his own interest. — Abu Bakr
- I feel I'm two people: I have my interest in acting and I have a lot of other political interests I'd like… — Alec Baldwin
- I've decided to run for the U.S. Senate because I believe Wisconsin families need a senator who will work hard to deliver… — Tammy Baldwin
- The only thing I would unequivocally say is that I have never had any interest in romantic comedy I just couldn't do… — Christian Bale
- In terms of the romantic kind of lead, I just never enjoy those movies very much. Maybe they'll come to interest me… — Christian Bale