Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 25, 1803 - April 27, 1882

Topics

ValueWillExplainThingsPrinciple

If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

StartSickThinkYouFindMoral

A technical survey that systematize, digest, and appraise the mid century state of psychology.

Stanley Smith Stevens

SurveyPsychologyTechnicalCentury

I'm not a practice religion freak. I didn't grow up in a religious family, but I have a faith.

Robin Wright

FamilyFaithReligionPracticeGrow

The difference between involvement and commitment is like ham and eggs. The chicken is involved; the pig is committed.

Martina Navratilova

CommitmentPigChickenDifference

You are all things. Denying, rejecting, judging or hiding from any aspect of your total being creates pain and results in a lack of wholeness.

Joy Page

PainYouResultsJudgingHiding

The real biographies of poets are like those of birds, almost identical - their data are in the way they sound. A poet's biography lies in his twists of language, in his meters, rhymes, and metaphors.

Joseph Brodsky

BirdsLanguageDataWaySoundReal

WWE doesn't do anything to protect the wrestlers; they do things to protect themselves.

CM Punk

ProtectAnythingThingsWWE

Mentors are like friendships.

Bozoma Saint John

MentorsFriendshipsLike

Traditionally, art has been for the select few. We have been brainwashed to believe that Michelangelo had to pat you on the head at birth.

Bob Ross

ArtBelieveYouBirthHeadBeen

It doesn't matter what background you come from; it doesn't matter what your circumstances are - you can survive.

Ashleigh Murray

SurviveYouCircumstancesMatter

In the first 50 years of the filibuster, it was used only 35 times. But the last Congress alone had 112 cloture motions filed, plus threats of more. This is the tyranny of the minority.

Peter Fenn

AloneTyrannyCongressMoreFirst

The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination.

Richard Hofstadter

CharacterImaginationWorldPosition

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