Indispensable Quotes - Page 19

• After a lifetime of picking stocks, I have to admit that Bogle's arguments in favor of the index fund have me thinking of joining him rather than trying to beat him. Bogle's wisdom and common sense are indispensable... for anyone trying to figure out how to invest in this crazy stock market.

  Jim Cramer

  Crazy, Thinking, Common Sense

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• common sense is a very tricky instrument; it is as deceptive as it is indispensable.

  Susanne Katherina Langer

  Common Sense, Instruments, Tricky

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• In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition for social progress.

  Charles William Eliot

  Progress, World, Public Opinion

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• [The designated or chosen leader tries to] articulate and justify the resentment dammed up in the souls of the frustrated. He kindles the vision of a breathtaking future so as to justify the sacrifice of a transitory present. He stages the world of make-believe so indispensable for the realization of self-sacrifice and united action.

  Eric Hoffer

  Believe, Sacrifice, Self

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I cannot see why a taste for the country should be held so very indispensable a requisite for excellence; but really people talk of it as if it were a virtue, and as if an opposite opinion was, to say the least of it, very immoral.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Country, Opposites, People

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1860). “The Complete Works of L.E. Landon”, p.100

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• The civility of the world has reached that pitch that their more moral genius is becoming indispensable, and the quality of this race is to be honored for itself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Race, Quality, Genius

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.775, Modern Library

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• All the world over it is true that a double-minded man is unstable in all his ways, like a wave on the streamlet, tossed hither and thither with every eddy of its tide. A determinate purpose in life and a steady adhesion to it through all disadvantages, are indispensable conditions of success.

  William Morley Punshon

  Men, Double Minded, Tides

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• There happened in the Middle Ages what has happened so often since then. Those who were the beneficiaries of the established order were bent on defending it, not so much, perhaps, because it guaranteed their interests, as because it seemed to them indispensable to the preservation of society.

  Henri Pirenne

  Order, Age, Internet

  Henri Pirenne (1956). “Medieval Cities: Their Origins and the Revival of Trade”, p.169, Princeton University Press

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• If the black man is feeble and not important to the existing races, not on a parity with the best race, the black man must serve,and be exterminated. But if the black man carries in his bosom an indispensable element of a new and coming civilization; for the sake of that element, no wrong nor strength nor circumstance can hurt him: he will survive and play his part. So now, the arrival in the world of such men as Toussaint, and the Haytian heroes, or of the leaders of their race in Barbadoes and Jamaica, outweighs in good omen all the English and American humanity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hurt, Hero, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.774, Modern Library

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• Colleges, in like manner, have their indispensable office,--to teach elements. But they can only highly serve us, when they aim not to drill, but to create; when they gather from far every ray of various genius to their hospitable halls, and, by the concentrated fires, set the hearts of their youth on flame.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Heart, College

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.49, Modern Library

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• Language makes it possible for a child to incorporate his parents' verbal prohibitions, to make them part of himself....We don't speak of a conscience yet in the child who is just acquiring language, but we can see very clearly how language plays an indispensable role in the formation of conscience. In fact, the moral achievement of man, the whole complex of factors that go into the organization of conscience is very largely based upon language.

  Selma Fraiberg

  Children, Men, Play

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• Colour is a human need like water and fire. It is a raw material indispensable to life

  Fernand Leger

  Fire, Water, Needs

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• An indispensable anthology of hope and inspiration. Put away your Prozac, and pick up The Impossible Will Take a Little While.

  Arianna Huffington

  Inspiration, Littles, Impossible

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• Justice is peculiarly indispensable to nations.

  Albert Pike

  Justice, Nations

  Albert Pike “Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry”, Lulu.com

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• Fashion is the art of making the unimportant indispensable.

  Perry Brass

  Fashion, Art, Unimportant

  Perry Brass (1998). “The Lover of My Soul: A Search for Ecstasy and Wisdom”, p.29, Perry Brass

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• Honesty, capacity, and industry are nowhere more indispensable than in public employment.

  William McKinley

  Honesty, Employment, Capacity

  William McKinley (2012). “A Supplement to A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents”, p.290, tredition

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• From earliest times, water has always been acknowledged as a primary human good and an indispensable natural resource. Around the great rivers of the world, like the Mississippi, great cultures have developed, while over the course of the centuries the prosperity of countless societies has been linked to these waterways. Today, however, the great fluvial systems of every continent are exposed to serious threats, often as a result of man's activity and decisions.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Men, Rivers, Water

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• Few characters in history are indispensable.

  Albert Bushnell Hart

  Character

  Albert Bushnell Hart, Ph.D. (1909). “Epochs of American History”

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• People once considered that religions were obsolete and that material science would solve all human problems. Then they have become disillusioned with materialism and machinery and have realized that spiritual sciences are also indispensable for human welfare.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, People, Problem

  Interview with Robert Thurman, www.motherjones.com. November/December 1997.

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• At the moment I am looking into astrology, which seems indispensable for a proper understanding of mythology. There are strange and wondrous things in these lands of darkness. Please, don't worry about my wanderings in these infinitudes. I shall return laden with rich booty for our knowledge of the human psyche.

  Carl Jung

  Land, Astrology, Worry

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• The science of genetics is in a transition period, becoming an exact science just as the chemistry in the times of Lavoisier, who made the balance an indispensable implement in chemical research.

  Wilhelm Johannsen

  Science, Balance, Transition

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• Most leaders are indispensable, but to produce a major social change, many ordinary people must also be involved.

  Anne Scott

  People, Leader, Ordinary

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• If physicists could not quote in the text, they would not feel that much was lost with respect to advancement of knowledge of the natural world. If historians could not quote, they would deem it a disastrous impediment to the communication of knowledge about the past. A luxury for physicists, quotation is a necessity for historians, indispensable to historiography.

  J. H. Hexter

  Communication, Knowledge, Science

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• Christ is indispensable to any scientific theory, even if its practitioners do not have a clue about him.

  William A. Dembski

  Religion, Atheism, Clue

  "Intelligent Design: The Bridge Between Science & Theology". Book by William A. Dembski, 2002.

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• Religion in America . . . Must be regarded as the foremost of the political institutions for that country; for if it does not impart a taste for freedom, it facilitates the use of it . . . I do know know whether all Americans have a sincere faith in their religion - for who can search the human heart? - But I am certain that they hold it to be indispensable to the maintenance of republican institutions. This opinion is not peculiar to a class of citizens or a party, but it belongs to the whole nation and to every rank of society.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Country, Party, Heart

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