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Letter "I" » impression
«The young are often accused of exaggerating their troubles; they do so, very often, in the hope of making some impression upon the inertia and the immovability of the selfish old.»
Author: Robertson Davies
(Author, Journalist)
| About:
Teenage,
Youth
| Keywords:
accused, exaggerating, immovability, impression, inertia, selfish, troubles
«The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.»
Author: John Stuart Mill
(Economist, Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Opinions,
Silence
| Keywords:
clearer, collision, collisions, deprived, deprived of, dissent, dissenting opinion, exchanging, existing, Great A, human error, Human perception, impression, livelier, peculiar, perception, posterity, produced, robbing, silencing
«The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself, and admires others who attain them, while undervaluing the truly precious thing in life.»
Author: Sigmund Freud
(Founder)
| Keywords:
admires, attain, impression, standards, undervalue, undervalued, undervalues, undervaluing
«To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.»
«Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
anon, impression, indelible, inspiration, poem, reminded
«The leader shows that style is no substitute for substance, that creating an impression is more potent than acting from one's center.»
Author: Lao Tzu
(Philosopher)
| About:
Actors and acting,
Leadership
| Keywords:
center, creating, impression, potent, substance, substitute
«The greatest trouble with most of us is that our demands upon ourselves are so feeble, the call upon the great within us so weak and intermittent that it makes no impression upon the creative energies; it lacks the force that transmutes desires into»
Author: Orison Swett Marden
| Keywords:
demands, energies, feeble, impression, intermittent, lacks, The Call, The Force, transmute, transmuted, transmutes, transmuting
«The great man is not convulsible or tormentable, events pass over him without much impression»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
events, impression, pass, pass over, The Great, The Impressions
«The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.»
«Spiritual superiority only sees the individual. But alas, ordinarily we human beings are sensual and, therefore, as soon as it is a gathering, the impression changes -- we see something abstract, the crowd, and we become different. But in the eyes of God, the infinite spirit, all the millions that have lived and now live do not make a crowd, He only sees each individual.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
| Keywords:
abstract, alas, crowd, gathering, gatherings, Gathering The, Human eye, impression, millions, ordinarily, sensual, superiority, The Crowd
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