Quotes by Lecturers - Page 11

Fame is proof that people are gullible.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature wishes that woman should attract man, yet she often cunningly moulds into her face a little sarcasm, which seems to say, 'Yes, I am willing to attract, but to attract a little better kind of a man than any I yet behold
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It ain't no disgrace for a man to fall but to lie there and grunt is.
Josh Billings
Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sanity is very rare every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have everything I need to enjoy my here and now-unless I am letting my consciousness be dominated by demands and expectations based on the dead past or the imagined future.
Ken Keyes
Every man is a borrower and a mimic life is theatrical and literature a quotation.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.
Josh Billings
I would put myself in the attitude to look in the eye an abstract truth, and I cannot. I blench and withdraw on this side and on that. I seem to know what he meant who said, No man can see God face to face and live.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truth--penultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond words. Beyond images, beyond that bounding rim of the Buddhist Wheel of Becoming. Mythology pitches the mind beyond that rim, to what can be known but not told.
Joseph Campbell
Do not be too timid and squeamish. ... All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world: everyone you meet is your mirror.
Ken Keyes
We place memories on pieces of paper to know they will always exist.
Nathan Filer
Politics is the name we give to the orchestration of power in any society.
Robert McKee
Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
Dale Carnegie
The fundamental human experience is that of compassion.
Joseph Campbell
So nigh is grandeur to our dust So near is God to man. When Duty whispers low Thou must The youth replies I can.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A woman's strength is the irresistible might of weakness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
Josh Billings
All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hello, my name is your potential. But you can call me impossible. I am the missed opportunities. I am the expectations you will never fulfill. I am always taunting you, regardless of how hard you try, regardless of how much you hope.
Nathan Filer
There are three wants which can never be satisfied: that of the rich who want something more that of the sick who want something different and that of the traveler who says "Anywhere but here."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are like travelers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every impression ever made on a person from newborn babyhood onwards will contribute to the shape and texture of the imagination.
Lesley Glaister
There is more to the human mind than its evolutionary heritage.
Kenan Malik
People will typically be more enthusiastic where they feel a sense of belonging and see themselves as part of a community than they will in a workplace in which each person is left to his own devices
Alfie Kohn
Every artist was first an amateur.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
People wish to be settled only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a moment, if you trip or slip, before your hand shoots out to break your fall, when you feel the earth rushing up at you and you cannot help yourself, a passing, fraction-of-a-second terror. I felt that way hour after hour after hour. Being anxious at this extreme level is bizarre. You feel all the time that you want to do something, that there is some affect that is unavailable to you, that there’s a physical need of impossible urgency and discomfort for which there is no relief, as though you were constantly vomiting from your stomach but had no mouth.
Andrew Solomon
There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
O Lord! Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A myth is something that has never happened, but is happening all the time.
Joseph Campbell
Outside, among your fellows, among strangers, you must perceive appearances, a hundred things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom!
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To fill the hour and leave no crevice ... that is happiness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Heresy is the life of a mythology and orthodoxy is the death.
Joseph Campbell
the mangrove killfish, lives in South American and southern US coastal swamps that can either dry up or become so toxic that the fish has to find refuge in the mud or by flipping and jumping across land. Amazingly, its skin and gills change so the killfish can breathe air and survive out of the water for as long as ten weeks.
Karen Shanor
Rabbi Hiyya advised his wife, “When a poor man comes to the door, be quick to give him food so that the same may be done to your children.” She exclaimed, “You are cursing our children [with the suggestion that they may become beggars].” But Rabbi Hiyya replied, “There is a wheel which revolves in this world.” —Babylonian Talmud, Shabbat 151b
Joseph Telushkin
Books are for nothing but to inspire
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The happiest time in any man's life is when he is in red-hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.
Josh Billings
By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Many people begin their criticism with sincere praise followed by the word "but", which signals that the criticism is about to begin. This may make the listener questions the sincerity of the praise. Use "and" instead, and provide constructive advice rather than criticism. this is possibly the most effective ways to address an issue in written form without seeming false in your praise.
Dale Carnegie
Some thoughts always find us young and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The secret of poetry is never explained - is always new. We have not got farther than mere wonder at the delicacy of the touch, & the eternity it inherits. In every house a child that in mere play utters oracles, & knows not that they are such. 'Tis as easy as breath. 'Tis like this gravity, which holds the Universe together, & none knows what it is.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity but in being uninteresting.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Poverty Frost Famine Rain Disease are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let us even bid our dearest friends farewell, and defy them, saying, "Who are you? Unhand me: I will be dependent no more." Ah! seest thou not, O brother, that thus we part only to meet again on a higher platform, and only be more each other's, because we are more our own?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The days come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant friendly party but they say nothing and if we do not use the gifts they bring they carry them as silently away.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts. And the other half contends that they are not facts at all. As a result we have people who consider themselves believers because they accept metaphors as facts, and we have others who classify themselves as atheists because they think religious metaphors are lies.
Joseph Campbell
Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history or science, it is killed.
Joseph Campbell