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We Call Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- That which we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so.
- Whatever limits us we call fate.
- The poet alone knows astronomy, chemistry, vegetation, and animation, for he does not stop at these facts, but employs them as signs. He knows why…
- The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness; a non performance of that which is pretended…
- Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists - talkers who mistake the…
- What we call results are beginnings.
- The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who…
- It is the duty of men to judge men only by their actions. Our faculties furnish us with no means of arriving at the motive,…
- The religions we call false were once true.
- Every mind has a new compass, a new direction of its own, differencing its genius and aim from every other mind.--We call this specialty the…
- That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable…
- That which we call sin in others is experiment for us.
More We Call Quotes
- To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
- All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which means characters… — Margaret Atwood
- The One, the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, these are what we call the transcendental attributes of Being, because they surpass… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
- What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing… — Henry Ward Beecher
- A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we… — Saul Bellow
- We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and can't take by a… — Robert Benchley
- What is the constitution of the universe? The universe is the manifestation of the divine thought; the thought of God embodies itself… — Annie Besant
- Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real. — Niels Bohr
- A century ago, petroleum - what we call oil - was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to… — James Buchan
- What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life. — Leo Buscaglia
- Because all of us believe and understand in the fabric of the common bond of why we call ourselves American is to… — Steve Buyer
- I invite the entire spectrum, shall we call it, of feeling. Because that is my greatest resource as a film actor. I… — Nicolas Cage