Ernest Renan (Joseph Ernest Renan) Quotes

The man who obeys is nearly always better than the man who commands.

Ernest Renan

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• I think an awful lot of the diplomatic problems that exist in the world come from people assuming that their society is the one with a purchase on truth.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • People
  • World
  • Thinking

• I am not concerned about getting reelected. I can make the unpopular but necessary decision. Your focus from day one is on your legacy rather than political considerations.

  

  Benigno Aquino III
  • Political
  • Focus
  • Decision

• There's not a lot of people expressing anger in the culture. They're expressing a lot of hyper-exaggerated sexuality.

  

  Courtney Love
  • People
  • Culture
  • Anger

• If you can see life as a learning experience, you can turn any negative into a positive.

  

  Neve Campbell
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Learning

• All amateur travellers have experienced horror journeys, long or short, sooner or later, one way or another. As a student of disaster, I note that we react alike to our tribulations: frayed and bitter at the time, proud afterwards. Nothing is better for self-esteem than survival.

  

  Martha Gellhorn
  • Time
  • Long
  • Proud

• Virtue and vice are not arbitrary things; but there is a natural and eternal reason for goodness and virtue, and against vice and wickedness.

  

  John Tillotson
  • Reason
  • Virtue
  • Natural

• There's nothing like confidence.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Confidence
  • Nothing

• Silence is a profound melody, for those who can hear it above all the noise.

  

  Socrates
  • Silence
  • Hear
  • Melody

• If we would be pure, if we would save Hinduism, we must rid ourselves of this poison of enforced widowhood.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Hinduism
  • Rid
  • Widowhood

• Rumour is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures And of so easy and so plain a stop That the blunt monster with uncounted heads, The still-discordant wavering multitude, Can play upon it.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Easy
  • Rumor
  • Slander

• Chris proposed exactly the way I've always dreamed. Our families were close by, but it was just us out on a beautiful deck overlooking a lake in East Tennessee. We had just been on a hike and - in our workout clothes - he hit the knee! We feel so blessed by God that He sent us each other, and we are looking so forward to forever together.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Clothes
  • Workout
  • Hike

• I am what I am, so take me as I am!.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • I Am What I Am

• Right now I'm not involved with anybody, but I hope by 75 I will be again.

  

  Stevie Nicks Fleetwood Mac
  • Involved
  • I Hope

• Get up, you useless lump, get up!

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Get Up
  • Lump

• Seek for good, but expect evil.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Seek

• How did I gain from not remembering my earthly self? It allowed me to go deep into realms beyond the worldly without having to worry about what I was leaving behind. Throughout my entire time in those worlds, I was a soul with nothing to lose. No places to miss, no people to mourn. I had come from nowhere and had no history, so I fully accepted my circumstances-even the initial murk and mess of the Realm of the Earthworm's-Eye View-with equanimity.

  

  Eben Alexander
  • People
  • Place
  • Miss

• If we are devoted to the cause of humanity, we shall soon be crushed and broken-hearted, for we shall often meet with more ingratitude from men than we would from a dog; but if our motive is love to God, no ingratitude can hinder us from serving our fellow men.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Men
  • Humanity

• Is not every meanest day the confluence of two eternities?

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Day
  • Confluence
  • Eternities

• The man who obeys is nearly always better than the man who commands.

  

  Ernest Renan
  • Obedience
  • Command