Stimulating

Famous quotes containing the word stimulating:

“An imaginative book renders us much more service at first, by stimulating us through its tropes, than afterward, when we arrive at the precise sense of the author. I think nothing is of any value in books, excepting the transcendental and extraordinary.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.”
—Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)

“There are few things more fundamentally encouraging and stimulating than seeing someone else die.”
—Stanley Kubrick (b. 1928)