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Matter Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- A scholar is a man with his inconvenience, that, when you ask him his opinion of any matter, he must go home and look up…
- The senses collect the surface facts of matter... It was sensation; when memory came, it was experience; when mind acted, it was knowledge; when mind…
- The astronomers said, 'Give us matter and a little motion and we will construct the universe. It is not enough that we should have matter,…
- No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken.
- Astronomy is a cold, desert science, with all its pompous figures,-depends a little too much on the glass-grinder, too little on the mind. 'T is…
- The Good Spirit never cared for the colleges, and though all men and boys were now drilled in Greek, Latin, and Mathematics, it had quite…
- No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.
- It the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.
- No matter how often you are defeated, you are born to victory.
- The proof of a high education is the ability to speak about complex matters as simply as possible.
- The judge weighs the arguments and puts a brave face on the matter, and since there must be a decision, decides as he can, and…
- As the eye is the best composer, so light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not…
- The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit.
- In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their own creed and yours; whilst the charm of the study…
More Matter Quotes
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal… — Hannah Arendt
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- I think, as a general matter, clearly, the United States globally supports the development of democracy and the democratic yearnings of all… — Richard Armitage
- I always think that if you look at anyone in detail, you will have empathy for them because you recognize them as… — Andrea Arnold
- I had some big ups and downs when I was in my 20s and the one thing I learned was, no matter… — Darren Aronofsky
- No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important. — Mary Kay Ash
- We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents… — Julian Assange
- The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters. — Mary Astell
- I think it is obscene that we should believe that we are entitled to end somebody's life, no matter what that person… — Richard Attenborough
- The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as we can… — Chinua Achebe
- Hardware works best when it matters the least. — Norman Ralph Augustine