Qualities

Famous quotes containing the word qualities:

    “He will perceive that there are far more excellent qualities in the student than preciseness and infallibility; that a guess is often more fruitful than an indisputable affirmation, and that a dream may let us deeper into the secret of nature than a hundred concerted experimenters.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “But in every constitution some large degree of animal vigor is necessary as material foundation for the higher qualities of the art.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “As a thinker and planner, the ant is the equal of any savage race of men; as a self-educated specialist in several arts, she is the superior of any savage race of men; and in one or two high mental qualities she is above the reach of any man, savage or civilized.”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)