"Speak what you think today in hard words……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today."
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2,823 Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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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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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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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I think if we didn't contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive.
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Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.
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Who can deny that all men are violent lovers of the truth, when we see them so positive in their…
— Jonathan Swift
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Let thy carriage be such as becomes a man grave settled and attentive to that which is spoken. Contradict not,…
— George Washington
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At this stage you must admit that whatever is seen to be sentient is nevertheless composed of atoms that are…
— Lucretius
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To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously…
— George Orwell
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When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or…
— Frederic Bastiat
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— Carl Sagan
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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
— Galileo Galilei
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Those who deny the existence of the truth postulate the truth of their denial and plainly contradict themselves.
— Antonio Machado
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Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless, by human…
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