"Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts go out of our minds through avenues which we never voluntarily opened."
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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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I believe that painting should come through the avenues of meditation rather than the canals of action.
— Mark Tobey
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The Pacific no longer represents menacing avenues of approach for a prospective invader. It assumes, instead, the friendly aspect of…
— Douglas MacArthur
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All sport... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear,…
— Spiro T. Agnew
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No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Let the spirit out - Discard all thoughts of reward, all hopes of praise and fears of blame, all awareness…
— Bruce Lee
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Deeply listening to music opens up new avenues of research I'd never even dreamed of. I feel from now on…
— Carl Jung
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Today [the voice of women] is being heard loud and clear. But I do not read the welcome triumph of…
— E. O. Wilson
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The biggest adversary in our life is ourselves. We are what we are, in a sense, because of the dominating…
— Bruce Lee
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When night falls over Washington, D.C., memorials, public buildings, and broad avenues become ethereal shapes in soft light and shadow.…
— Volkmar Wentzel
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When there are no avenues of escape or one is caught even before any attempt to escape can be made,…
— Gichin Funakoshi
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A tall young man sped swiftly up the wide stone steps leading to the doorway of a mansion in one…
— George Barr McCutcheon
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Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of…
— Charles Simmons
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