"A skillful man reads his dreams for self-knowledge,……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A skillful man reads his dreams for self-knowledge, yet not the details but the quality"
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2,823 Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities…
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If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.
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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
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To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the…
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There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not…
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Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.
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Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.
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The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial…
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One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the…
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Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.
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The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.
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A little praise goes a great ways.
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To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail.
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I always think that if you look at anyone in detail, you will have empathy for them because you recognize…
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I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.
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I don't know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget…
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I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in…
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I am a control freak. I am very hands on and pay attention to details.
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At the solemn moment of death, every man, even when death is sudden, sees the whole of his past life…
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We were an ill-matched pair, my husband and I, from the very outset; he, with very high ideas of a…
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What is fashion? It's discipline. Discipline and a credo to do only the best, down to the smallest detail.
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I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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Composing is like driving down a foggy road toward a house. Slowly you see more details of the house-the color…
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