Essential Quotes - page 2

Now, if the principle of toleration were once admitted into classical education --if it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language, and the stress of the teaching were placed on the few things absolutely essential to this result, if the tortoise were allowed time to creep, and the bird permitted to fly, and the fish to swim, towards the enchanted and divine sources of Helicon --all might in their own way arrive there, and rejoice in its flowers, its beauty, and its coolness. (Harriet Beecher Stowe)
To eliminate the discrepancy between men's plans and the results achieved, a new approach is necessary. Morphological thinking suggests that this new approach cannot be realized through increased teaching of specialized knowledge. This morphological analysis suggests that the essential fact has been overlooked that every human is potentially a genius. Education and dissemination of knowledge must assume a form which allows each student to absorb whatever develops his own genius, lest he become frustrated. The same outlook applies to the genius of the peoples as a whole. View quote
Fritz Zwicky
Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind. View quote
Norman Borlaug
There is a divergence between private and social accounting that the market fails to register. One essential task of law and government is to institute the necessary conditions. View quote
John Rawls
What is essential is whether it is perceived and not whether it exists. To exist and yet not to be perceived is the same as not exist. View quote
Gao Xingjian
Sir, I think all Christians, whether Papists or Protestants, agree in the essential articles, and that their differences are trivial, and rather political than religious. View quote
Samuel Johnson
No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination. View quote
Edward Hopper
I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilization. View quote
Roger Ebert
Speeches made to the people are essential to the arousing of enthusiasm for a war. View quote
Benito Mussolini
And a third danger is timidity. Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality of those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change. View quote
Robert F. Kennedy
Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State. (Cardinal Richelieu)
Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment. View quote
Johan Huizinga
In the light of eternity we shall see that what we desired would have been fatal to us, and that what we would have avoided was essential to our well-being. View quote
François Fénelon
I think it is absolutely essential in a democracy to have competition in the media, a lot of competition, and we seem to be moving away from that. View quote
Walter Cronkite
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality. View quote
Bertrand Russell
A diplomatic peace is not yet the real peace. It is an essential step in the peace process leading towards a real peace. View quote
Yitzhak Rabin
Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
Anecdotal data is not incidental to theory development at all, but an essential part of it. View quote
Henry Mintzberg
Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move. View quote
Sun Tzu
It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct espionage against you and to bribe them to serve you. Give them instructions and care for them. Thus doubled agents are recruited and used. View quote
Sun Tzu
And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together. (Jonathan Swift)
The capacity of indignation makes an essential part of the outfit of every honest man. View quote
James Russell Lowell
nothing suffers annihilation, but at dissolution there is a change, and things fall back to the essential element in which they were before. View quote
Vitruvius
But which is the State's essential function, aggression or defence, few seem to know or care. View quote
Benjamin Tucker
So the idea that there is nothing essential, in the sense that there are no human universals, is dogma. Ask most anyone who is going to be shot at dawn. View quote
Catharine MacKinnon