Suggestions

Famous quotes containing the word suggestions:

    To retire to the monastery, or the woods, or the sea, is to escape from the sharp suggestions that spur on ambition.
    Charles Horton Cooley (1864–1929)

    Every young man is prone to be misled by the suggestions of his own ill-founded ambition which he mistakes for the promptings of a secret genius, and thence dreams of unrivaled greatness.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    Suppose you attend to the suggestions which the moon makes for one month, commonly in vain, will it not be very different from anything in literature or religion? But why not study this Sanskrit? What if one moon has come and gone with its world of poetry, its weird teachings, its oracular suggestions,—so divine a creature freighted with hints for me, and I have not used her? One moon gone by unnoticed?
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)