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wisdom children men
Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men. Victor Hugo
wisdom army ideas
One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas. Victor Hugo
wisdom memories imagination
Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant. Victor Hugo
wisdom men pockets
Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket. Victor Hugo
wisdom men conscience
Conscience is God present in man. Victor Hugo
wisdom decision style
Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life. Victor Hugo
wisdom spring flower
God has set his intentions in the flowers, in the dawn, in the spring, it is his will that we should love. Victor Hugo
wisdom children men
A great artist is a great man in a great child. Victor Hugo
wisdom wind revolution
The wind of revolutions is not tractable. Victor Hugo
nature voice saddening
The voice of nature is always encouraging. Henry David Thoreau
nature book reading
Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind. R. Buckminster Fuller
nature saint odd
It is very odd that Nature should be so unscrupulous. She is no saint . . . Ralph Waldo Emerson
nature fall color
Old & New put their stamp to everything in Nature. The snowflake that is now falling is marked by both. The present moment gives the motion & the color of the flake: Antiquity, its form & properties. All things wear a luster which is the gift of the present & a tarnish of time. Ralph Waldo Emerson
nature men dust
Nature is no sentimentalist, - does not cosset or pamper us. We must see that the world is rough and surly, and will not mind drowning a man or a woman; but swallows your ship like a grain of dust. The cold, inconsiderate of persons, tingles your blood, benumbs your feet, freezes a man like an apple. The diseases, the elements, fortune, gravity, lightning, respect no persons. Ralph Waldo Emerson
nature essentials
Power is in nature the essential measure of right. Ralph Waldo Emerson
nature white sugar
Nature is a rag-merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations; like a good chemist, whom I found, the other day, in his laboratory, converting his old shirts into pure white sugar. Ralph Waldo Emerson
nature deities saturated
Nature is saturated with Deity. Ralph Waldo Emerson
nature children boys
The idiot, the Indian, the child and unschooled farmer's boy stand nearer to the light by which nature is to be read, than the dissector or the antiquary. Ralph Waldo Emerson
understanding curiosity mind
The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on. Isaac Asimov
understanding levels fox-news
There are a lot of folks at Fox News who bring a certain level of sophistication to their understanding of politics. David Shuster