Approach Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson Download Open image “Our books approach very slowly the things we most wish to know.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Approach Book Books Knowledge Knows Wish
Certain books seem to be written, not that we might learn from them, but in order that we might see how much the author… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Books are slow. They require time; they are written slowly, published slowly, and read slowly. — Lewis Buzbee Copy Share Image
It is a most gratifying sign of the rapid progress of our time that our best text-books become antiquated so quickly. — Theodor Billroth Copy Share Image
We live in an age of rapid mass media, television, Internet. They determine our tempo, not books. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Books have a way of finding their way into our lives, usually, right when we need them the most.” — Richard Denney Copy Share Image
The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have a very short attention span, so books have never been my thing. — Jason Jones Copy Share Image
We all would love the idea of people getting what's coming to them in books and in life, but sometimes the trajectory is a… — Meg Wolitzer 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
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
I'm in a business where there's complete anarchy. You can't control it - you can only react to it. The control that people traditionally… — Martin Sorrell Copy Share Image
When you approach something to photograph it, first be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence. Then don't leave… — Minor White Copy Share Image
We do not want to be reminded that it is we, the indigenous people, who are poor and exploited in the land of our… — Steven Biko Copy Share Image
One of the things I regret about not putting in that book or I think it's there but I didn't really elaborate on it,… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
Ideal for the child and society in the best of times, Rudolf Steiner's brilliant process of education is critically needed and profoundly relevant now… — Joseph Chilton Pearce Copy Share Image
I don't have any particular method, my approach is very simple. I try to understand the emotional graph of the character. — Pratik Gandhi Copy Share Image
“But young men have not only this frivolous ambition of being thought masters of execution, inciting them on the one hand, but also their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everything, every part that you approach has to be somehow rooted in yourself. You have to somehow root everything so that it's not just… — Judi Dench Copy Share Image
Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur Thou still unravished… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
The whole secret to mastering the game of golf - and this applies to the beginner as well as the pro - is to… — Arnold Palmer Copy Share Image
The essence of Christianity...is an ever-new encounter with... the God who speaks to us, who approaches us and who befriends us! — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
