Ernest Renan (Joseph Ernest Renan) Quotes

In morals, truth is but little prized when it is a mere sentiment, and only attains its full value when realized in the world as fact.

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• That's what every young kid thinks about when they first put on a uniform - is to play in the Major League and then, ultimately, play in a World Series. To me, that was the ultimate, winning in '86.

  

  Gary Carter
  • World
  • Me
  • Winning

• To be black in the Baltimore of my youth was to be naked before the elements of the world.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
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  • Black
  • Youth

• Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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  • Proud
  • Beauty

• We're in a period of revolutionary change. I'm optimistic. One's self changes, and then the world changes. It's going to begin internally, not externally.

  

  Laura Esquivel
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• All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

  

  Walter Bagehot
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  • Reality
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• The U.S. can become carbon neutral in our lifetimes. In the process, we will put millions of Americans to work, make our companies more competitive, and shield our communities from extreme weather. And we will honor our obligation to leave the world a better place for future generations.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • World
  • Work
  • Future

• I've been doing this for 33 years, and sometimes you make movies and nobody cares. But when people care, it's the greatest thing in the world - even when it's passionately against the title - because it's going to start a conversation.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • People
  • World
  • Care

• The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better - it is just turning around as usual.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • World
  • Growing
  • Better

• I think that cognitive scientists would support the view that our visual system does not directly represent what is out there in the world and that our brain constructs a lot of the imagery that we believe we are seeing.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • World
  • Believe
  • Support

• My goal is to give young girls confidence in this world so they can be more like men in the decision-making process.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • World
  • Men
  • Decision

• There's so many kids in the world who are told, 'You can't do this, you can't do that.' Those are all put-downs. I'm all about pick-ups. You have to pick people up and pay it forward.

  

  Nate Robinson
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• It seems as if the female spirit of the world were mourning everlastingly over blessings, not lost, but which she has never had, and which, in her discouragement she feels that she never will have, they are so far off.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • World
  • She
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• Each and every one of you has the power, the will and the capacity to make a difference in the world in which you live in. … You should go through life knowing, 'I am somebody.'

  

  Harry Belafonte
  • Life
  • World
  • Live

• I don't really live on compliments. As a matter of fact, they have a way of distracting me. I know a whole lot of musicians, artists out there who hears the compliments and thinks 'wow, I must have been really great' and so they get fat and satisfied and they get lost and forget about their actual talent and start living in another world.

  

  Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience
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  • Great
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• I think you have to grow up and realise that we're facing religious fanatics who would kill everyone in the world who doesn't do what they say. The more time you give them the more bombs they'll get. Bin Laden is going to try and kill more people. It helps the fanatics.

  

  Joe Strummer The Clash
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• The great moral teachers of humanity were, in a way, artistic geniuses in the art of living.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Great
  • Humanity
  • Moral

• We live in a world of strange priorities, where Kim Kardashian buying a Lamborghini creates international headlines, but children in Niger suffering from drought and children in Britain suffering from leukaemia go unnoticed.

  

  David Harewood
  • World
  • Live
  • Children

• I don't know about the rest of the world, but America loves redemption. They love giving people second chances.

  

  Jason Boyd
  • People
  • World
  • America

• Babyface is one of the top songwriters in the world ever, and Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis have worked with everybody that I grew up listening to.

  

  Algee Smith
  • Up
  • World
  • Listening

• The world is not beautiful. Therefore it is.

  

  Keiichi Sigsawa
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • Therefore

• I think people think I'm a lot younger than I am because of how I look on screen.

  

  Maisie Williams
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  • Younger

• The experience of losing a loved one impels us toward a deeper understanding of life. Everyone fears and is saddened by death. That is natural. But by struggling to overcome the pain and sadness that accompanies death, we become sharply aware of the dignity and preciousness of life and develop the compassion to share the sufferings of others as our own.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Death

• Because animals are property, we consider as 'humane treatment' that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans.

  

  Gary L. Francione
  • Animals
  • Property
  • Torture

• In morals, truth is but little prized when it is a mere sentiment, and only attains its full value when realized in the world as fact.

  

  Ernest Renan
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