Quotes by Lecturers - Page 17

It is time to be old To take in sail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
America is a country of young men.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The reward of a thing well done is having done it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
How well you do things should be incidental, not integral, to the way you regard yourself.
Alfie Kohn
The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite. The soul environs itself with friends, that it may enter into a grander self-acquaintance or solitude; and it goes alone for a season, that it may exalt its conversation or society.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
He is a dull observer whose experience has not taught him the reality and force of magic, as well as of chemistry.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Shall we judge a country by the majority or by the minority? By the minority surely.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you have lived your individual life in your own adventurous way and then look back upon its course, you will find that you have lived a model human life, after all.
Joseph Campbell
The finest people marry the two sexes in their own person.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become.
Joseph Chilton Pearce
The more we want our children to be (1) lifelong learners, genuinely excited about words and numbers and ideas, (2) avoid sticking with what’s easy and safe, and (3) become sophisticated thinkers, the more we should do everything possible to help them forget about grades.
Alfie Kohn
There is always a best way of doing everything if it be only to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Make yourself necessary to somebody.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness whether it be to make baskets or broadswords or canals or statues or songs.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Money often costs too much
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Those who believe their suffering has been valuable love more readily than those who see no meaning in their pain. Suffering does not necessarily imply love, but love implies suffering
Andrew Solomon
Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are selfish, my illness and I. We think only of ourselves. We shape the world around us into messages, into secret whispers spoken only for us.
Nathan Filer
Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyphic to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life, before he apprehends it as truth. In like manner, nature is already, in its forms and tendencies, describing its own design. Let us interrogate the great apparition, that shines so peacefully around us. Let us inquire, to what end is nature?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
All of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
Dale Carnegie
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When the man is at home his standing in society is well known and quietly taken but when he is abroad it is problematical and is dependent on the success of his manners.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
Joseph Campbell
Scholarly acumen sharpens taste and judgment, but we must never mistake criticism for art. Intellectual analysis, however heady, will not nourish the soul.
Robert McKee
It is by faith that poetry as well as devotion soars above this dull earth that imagination breaks through its clouds breathes a purer air and lives in a softer light.
Henry Giles
You are already that which you want to be, and your refusal to believe it is the only reason you do not see it.
Neville Goddard
A world in the hand is worth two in the bush.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Passion though a bad regulator is a powerful spring.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be simple is to be great.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
He fed his spirit with the bread of books
Edwin Markham
Accept the place the divine providence has found for you the society of your contemporaries the connection of events.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
All that we call sacred history attests that the birth of a poet is the principal event in chronology.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
One idea lights a thousand candles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Courage consists of the power of self-recovery.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I wish to say what I think and feel today with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A beautiful woman is a practical poet, taming her savage mate, planting tenderness, hope and eloquence in all whom she approaches.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine
Ralph Waldo Emerson
People do not deserve good writing, they are so pleased with bad.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not true that "love is not love which alters when it alteration finds." Love alters all the time; it is fluid, in perceptual flux, an evolving business across a lifetime.
Andrew Solomon
For is it not the common experience of all of us - you and I - that we do no incorporate the truth of these propositions in our lives? We say we know, but we do not do as we know. We say we believe, but we do not act like it.
James W. Sire
Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be like a postage stamp-stick to one thing until you get there.
Josh Billings
In comedy laughter settles all arguments.
Robert McKee
Mental illness turns people inwards. That's what I reckon. It keeps up forever trapped by the pain of our own minds, in the same way that the pain of a broken leg or a cut thumb will grab your attention, holding it so tightly that your good leg or your good thumb seem to cease to exist.
Nathan Filer
Storylines from fiction always seem inherently improbable to occur in real life, yet when we read them we are happy to suspend our disbelief, which may simply suggest that in our everyday lives we have an irrational craving for certainty and probability.
Guy Fraser-Sampson
An important feature of good characterization in a novel is that the characters are dimensionalized and are not all of one piece. Human beings, as Singer noted, have contradictions.
Joseph Telushkin
Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
That law of nature whereby everything climbs to higher platforms, and bodily vigor becomes mental and moral vigor. The bread he eats is first strength and animal spirits; it becomes, in higher laboratories, imagery and thought; and in still higher results, courage and endurance. This is the right compound interest; this is capital doubled, quadrupled, centupled; man raised to his highest power. The true thrift is always to spend on the higher plane; to invest and invest, with keener avarice, that he may spend in spiritual creation and not in augmenting animal existence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Things refuse to be mismanaged for long.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ride the horse in the direction that it's going.
Werner Erhard
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson