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Precisely Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- 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…
- The reward of commercial civilization is the ability to consume a never-ending array of products.There are limits beyond which commodities cannot be multiplied without preventing…
- A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light…
- A man cannot utter two or three sentences without disclosing to intelligent ears precisely where he stands in life and thought, whether in the kingdom…
- Speak your latent conviction. . . Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the…
- People destined to meet will do so, apparently by chance, at precisely the right moment.
More Precisely Quotes
- Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced… — Mikhail Bakunin
- The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery,… — James A. Baldwin
- The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt. — Konrad Adenauer
- It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate… — Walter Benjamin
- Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult. — Warren G. Bennis
- Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses. — Georges Bernanos
- Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people. — Theodor Adorno
- I think that political marriages are subject to more strain than most precisely because of the nature of politics. — Tony Abbott
- I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like a novel, with a single difference: Every… — Truman Capote
- Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one. — Thomas Carlyle
- I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone. — John Cheever
- In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all. — Eldridge Cleaver