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Side Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial side; has its translation, through…
- Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.
- The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who…
- We are of different opinions at different hours, but we always may be said to be at heart on the side of truth.
- 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…
- Art should exhilarate, and throw down the walls of circumstance on every side, awakening in the beholder the same sense of universal relation and power…
- If you want to be great and successful, choose people who are great and successful and walk side by side with them.
- If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new…
- Each man has his own vocation. The talent is the call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him. He has…
- A good intention but fixed and resolute - bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every side and at…
- Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our own spontaneous expression with good…
- I would put myself in the attitude to look in the eye an abstract truth, and I cannot. I blench and withdraw on this side…
- A just thinker will allow full swing to his scepticism. I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling…
- No picture of life can have any veracity that does not admit the odious facts. A man's power is hooped in by a necessity, which,…
- Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one…
- Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.
- Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
- Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
- If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new…
More Side Quotes
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- It's actually amazing because you go so far into another side of your brain when you're studying something completely different, and I… — Dido Armstrong
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe
- Every aspect of human technology has a dark side, including the bow and arrow. — Margaret Atwood
- The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks… — Marcus Aurelius
- I think that more and more you're going to see people of good will on their side of the aisle say you… — David Axelrod
- I'm not involved in light, frivolous matters. I'm not involved in fringe or side issues. I'm involved in serious issues. — Michele Bachmann
- God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave. — Francis Bacon
- I hate men who are in touch with their feminine side. — David Bailey
- There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of… — Russell Baker
- The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. — James A. Baldwin
- Look at the product pipeline, look at the fantastic financial results we've had for the last five years. You only get that… — Steve Ballmer