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

• The heavenly motions... are nothing but a continuous song for several voices, perceived not by the ear but by the intellect, a figured music which sets landmarks in the immeasurable flow of time.

  

  Johannes Kepler
  • Song
  • Voices
  • Heavenly

• There's nothing like confidence.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Confidence
  • Nothing

• We are part of the whole which we call the universe, but it is an optical delusion of our mind that we think we are separate. This separateness is like a prison for us. Our job is to widen the circle of our compassion so we feel connected with all people and situations.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Mind
  • Universe
  • Part

• 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

• If Bush, as I believe, has reliable information on the fact that Saddam Hussein is making weapons of mass destruction, I cannot not support the policies of his government.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Information
  • Weapons
  • Bush

• To our strongest impulse, to the tyrant in us, not only our reason but also our conscience yields.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Impulse
  • Tyrant
  • Yields

• God calls us to duty, and the only right answer is obedience...whether we ourselves get enjoyment and blessing from the task or not, the call must be obeyed...It is better to obey blunderingly than not to obey at all.

  

  George Hodges
  • God
  • Duty
  • Obedience

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

  

  Ernest Renan
  • Obedience
  • Command