"Who shall forbid a wise skepticism, seeing that……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Who shall forbid a wise skepticism, seeing that there is no practical question on which anything more than an approximate solution can be had?"
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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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More Approximate Quotes
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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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Islam in its origins is just as shady and approximate as those from which it took its borrowings. It makes…
— Christopher Hitchens
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The first steps in the path of discovery, and the first approximate measures, are those which add most to the…
— Charles Babbage
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That our knowledge only illuminates a small corner of the Universe, that it is incomplete, approximate, tentative and merely probable…
— Arthur David Ritchie
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You see, one thing is, I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I have approximate answers and…
— Richard P. Feynman
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There are no easy words for the insights of the spirit, and approximate language used in good faith can cause…
— Densey Clyne
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Photography is a contest between a photographer and the presumptions of approximate and habitual seeing. The contest can be held…
— John Szarkowski
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The first and probably most fundamental aspect of this crisis is that we are now close to the commodification of…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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What happens after death is so unspeakably glorious that our imagination and our feelings do not suffice to form even…
— Carl Jung
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All fashions are charming, or rather relatively charming, each one being a new striving, more or less well conceived, after…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Quantum mechanics provides us with an approximate, plausible, conjectural explanation of what actually is, or was, or may be taking…
— Edward Abbey
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Carob is a brown powder made from the pulverized fruit of a Mediterranean evergreen. Some consider carob an adequate substitute…
— Sandra Boynton
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