"There are books which take rank in your……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"There are books which take rank in your life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences, so medicinal, so stringent, so revolutionary, so authoritative."
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2,823 Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson has 2,823 quotes on this site.
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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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Yet as I cast my eye over the whole course of science I behold instances of false science, even more…
— Arthur Lynch
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We need a more authoritative world...What's the alternative to democracy? There isn't one. But even the best democracies agree that…
— James Lovelock
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Too rarely is the individual teacher so free from the dictation of authoritative supervisor, textbook on methods, prescribed course of…
— John Dewey
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Remember: the Bible is our only authoritative source of information about Heaven.
— Billy Graham
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Although one never really knows what one's associates think of one deep down, I believe I was easy to work…
— Guy de Rothschild
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The proposed constitution, therefore, even when tested by the rules laid down by its antagonists, is, in strictness, neither a…
— James Madison
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There is one view of the subject which ought to have its influence on those who espouse doctrines which strike…
— James Madison
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All art is unstable. Its meaning is not necessarily that implied by the author. There is no authoritative voice. There…
— David Bowie
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If it's a woman, it's caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative.
— Barbara Walters
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Experience is, for me, the highest authority. The touchstone of validity is my own experience. No other person's ideas, and…
— Carl Rogers
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When authoritative reports of radical-design craft having spectacular performance are viewed in the light of a stream of astrobiological discoveries,…
— Don Berliner
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One thing must be emphatically stated. The New Testament books did not become authoritative for the Church because they were…
— F. F. Bruce
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