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Public Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature.
- The two terrors that discourage creativity and creative living are fear of public opinion and undue reverence for one's own consistency.
- The highest proof of civility is that the whole public action of the State is directed on securing the greatest good of the greatest number.
- Public opinion, I am sorry to say, will bear a great deal of nonsense. There is scarcely any absurdity so gross, whether in religion, politics,…
- I fear the popular notion of success stands in direct opposition in all points to the real and wholesome success. One adores public opinion, the…
- He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public.
- Self Esteem::"It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude to be self-centered.…
- The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure; but it has a certain probity, which…
- Society is infected with rude, cynical, restless, and frivolous persons who prey upon the rest, and whom no public opinion concentrated into good manners, forms…
- There is no luck in literary reputation. They who make up the final verdict upon every book are not the partial and noisy readers of…
- It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance, you will not easily arrive at better. If they know…
- A man of good sense but of little faith, whose compassion seemed to lead him to church as often as he went there, said to…
- How can he [today's writer] be honored, when he does not honor himself; when he loses himself in the crowd; when he is no longer…
- A collector recently bought at public auction, in London, for one hundred and fifty-seven guineas, an autograph of Shakespeare; but for nothing a school-boy can…
- I am primarily engaged to myself to be a public servant of all the gods, to demonstrate to all men that there is intelligence and…
More Public Quotes
- I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe… — Dean Acheson
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve.… — Neil Armstrong
- The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people… — Chester A. Arthur
- Dare to risk public criticism. — Mary Kay Ash
- We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular news organization, format it… — Julian Assange
- Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think. — Alfred Austin
- The public character of every public servant is legitimate subject of discussion, and his fitness or unfitness for office may be fairly… — Charles Babbage
- It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he… — Charles Babbage
- Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get off on… — Jensen Ackles
- I am a woman with a calling for social struggle and public service. — Michelle Bachelet
- The possibility of my presidential candidacy emerged spontaneously in public opinion polls. For my part, I noticed people's affection when I was… — Michelle Bachelet