"There is not a piece of science, but……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"There is not a piece of science, but its flank may be turned tomorrow."
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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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I wrote about people who liked fake fireplaces in their parlor, who thought a brass horse with a clock embedded…
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Anyone who says that life matters less to an animal than it does to us has not held in his…
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Advertising is the foot on the accelerator, the hand on the throttle, the spur on the flank that keeps our…
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One charming characteristic of many flank attacks I could mention is that they do not very often lead to simplification:…
— Bent Larsen
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There's an enduring American compulsion to be on the side of the angels. Expediency alone has never been an adequate…
— Jonathan Raban
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Opposition to the truth is inevitable, especially if it takes the form of a new idea, but the degree of…
— B. H. Liddell Hart
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Valor consists in the power of self-recovery, so that a man cannot have his flank turned, cannot be out-generalled, but…
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They flank me - depression on my left, loneliness on my right. They don't need to show their badges. I…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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I took Punk to be the detonation of some slow-fused projectile buried deep in society's flank a decade earlier, and…
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Tyson was still staring at Chiron in amazement. He whimpered like he wanted to pat Chiron's flank but was afraid…
— Rick Riordan
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When God lets loose a great thinker on this planet, then all things are at risk. There is not a…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Mounting a large rock, I was able to see a considerable body of the enemy moving by the flank in…
— Joshua Chamberlain
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