We are prisoners of ideas.
Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We are prisoners of ideas.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
- People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he know that every day is Doomsday.
- Work and acquire and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance.
- It is not length of life, but depth of life.
- You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.
- Always do what you are afraid to do.
- Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.
- Work is victory.
- Be and not seem.
- We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
Best Quotes
- I'm religiously opposed to religion.
- A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success.
- I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me.
- The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.
- The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
- Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.
- Like your home's closets, your financial clutter needs an overhaul every now and again, and the payoff will go far beyond the psychic satisfaction of neatening up.
- The best book, like the best speech, will do it all - make us laugh, think, cry and cheer - preferably in that order.
- Why are people unemployed? Because there is no work. Why is there no work? Because people are not buying products and services. Why are people not buying products and services? Because they have no money. Why do people have no money? Because they are unemployed.
- Working with my dad was such a gas. We approached the work in a similar way. We only made two films together when I was an adult, Tucker, and Blown Away, but it was so much fun to play with your parent like that.