Essential Quotes

The power of taxing people and their property is essential to the very existence of government.''

James Madison

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

John D. Rockefeller

The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.

John Updike

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." "The West of which I speak is but another name for the Wild, and what I have been preparing to say is, that in Wildness is the preservation of the World." "This curious world we inhabitÖis more wonderful than convenient; more beautiful than useful; it is more to be admired and enjoyed than used."

Henry David Thoreau

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Henry David Thoreau

It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.

Harriet Martineau

Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans

Jacques Cousteau

Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to dramatic art, for the object of journalism is to make events go as far as possible

Arthur Schopenhauer

Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Justice Felix Frankfurter

Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.

Bertrand Russell

First, the security and privacy of sensitive taxpayer information is absolutely essential.

Jim Ramstad

Work is an essential part of being alive. Your work is your identity.

Kay Stepkin

In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival.

Noam Chomsky

There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains of the earliest Greek art.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

Nicholas Murray Butler