Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• This fanaticism is what feeds terrorism. And this is precisely why Muslims must play an active role in opposing hate sermons and incitement to terrorism and extremism in their mosques.

  

  Otto Schily
  • Why
  • Hate
  • Play

• The thing about Y Combinator that's cool is that most companies won't happen if we don't fund them.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Cool
  • Happen
  • Most

• Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Time
  • World
  • Plan

• Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.

  

  Abdus Salam
  • Quality
  • Patience
  • Physics

• I don't think that any political party should claim Jesus as being a part of a political party.

  

  Vicky Hartzler
  • Think
  • Political
  • Party

• My dad only ever talked about two things: bicycles and Mercedes.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Dad
  • Two
  • Ever

• My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • American
  • House
  • Looks

• Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • School
  • Character
  • You

• We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • Think
  • Cancer
  • Need

• Americans have not only a right but a responsibility to consider the values of those who seek to lead them - whether they arise from life experience, political ideology or religious belief.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Political

• The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Country
  • Done
  • History

• We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • Country
  • Small
  • Build

• But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Unhappy

• I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British taxes. I must be doing something right.

  

  Vince Cable
  • People
  • Trying
  • Daily

• Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?

  

  W. D. Richter
  • Why
  • Space
  • Always

• The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Experience
  • Friends
  • Together

• I wish that the Democrats would put some effort into Social Security reform, illegal immigration's reform, tax reform, or some of the other real issues that are out there.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Real
  • Wish
  • Effort

• It's funny. Some people remember that a lot more than I do. I remember certain parts of it, and if everybody who mentioned that to me had been to the game who said they were at the game, there'd be 800,000 people at that game, I think.

  

  Carlton Fisk
  • People
  • Remember
  • Think

• If you can believe this, I didn't fight for my first world title fight till I had 58 fights, so I really appreciated what I was fighting for and for whom as well.

  

  Alexis Arguello
  • World
  • Believe
  • Fighting

• My father was a great example of a strong and good man and Christian man, and my mother taught all my six sisters how to be young ladies and mothers and how to take care of your family. And so I think they were - they still are - great examples for all of us to their kids and to the world, too.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • World
  • Good
  • Great

• The expense of getting into space is the rocket launch, the rocket itself. Rocket's right now, commercial rockets cost probably somewhere between $50, or $120, or $150 million per launch. And those are all expendable. That is, you've got to buy a new rocket for each launch. So, that really is the critical part. If there was some kind of really, a revolutionary breakthrough and the price of rockets fell by an order of magnitude, I mean, just imagine what that would do as far as getting access to more ordinary people.

  

  Leroy Chiao
  • People
  • Space
  • Rocket

• We do not merely perceive objects and hold thoughts in our minds: all our perceptions and thought processes are felt. All have a distinctive component that announces an unequivocal link between images and the existence of life in our organism.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Thoughts

• It is not enough that top management commit themselves for life to quality and productivity. They must know what it is that they are committed to - that is, what they must do. These obligations cannot be delegated. Support is not enough; action is required.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Life
  • Action
  • Support

• People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Knowing
  • Intellectual