Doubtful Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson Download Open image “Many of the historical proverbs have a doubtful paternity.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Doubtful Historical History Inspirational Love
Paternity is based anyhow only upon conviction: I am convinced, therefore, I am the father. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Those that cannot produce ideas often speak with the old proverbs! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Have you ever observed that when a man gets a son he takes all the credit, and when he gets a daughter he blames… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they are the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Words There is no good father, that's the rule. Don't lay the blame on men but on the bond of paternity, which is rotten.… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Proverbs, like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary of the intuitions. That which the droning world, chained to appearances, will not… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents.” — J.Adam Snyder Copy Share Image
“There had never been guarantee that conception would lead to a live birth, or that birth would lead to a life of any great… — M.L. Stedman Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Beauty's a doubtful good, a glass, a flower, Lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour; And beauty, blemish'd once, for ever's lost, In spite… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“An atheist is someone who is disappointed in his search of god. He is a man who strongly needed god but couldn't find him.… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
It is doubtful whether mankind are most indebted to those who like Bacon and Butler dig the gold from the mine of literature, or… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place...The old humility was a spur that prevented a man from stopping; not a… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
We ought not to be over-anxious to encourage innovation in cases of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
A man who carries a cat by the tail is getting experience that will always be helpful. He isn't likely to grow dim or… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is beginning to be doubtful whether Parliament and Congress sit in Westminster and Washington, or in the editorial rooms of the leading journals,--so… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The world is deceitful; her end is doubtful, her conclusion is horrible, her judge terrible, and her judgment is intolerable. — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Look at Mann's reading habits, his explicit comments on Nietzsche, and his copy of Birth of Tragedy, and it starts to seem doubtful that… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
At times it has been doubtful to me if Emerson really knows or feels what Poetry is at its highest, as in the Bible,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
It is doubtful if even experience of riches and success is as intense among those who have experienced nothing else as among those who… — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
The first men who set out for Mars had better make sure they leave everything at home in apple-pie order. They won't get back… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
