Robert Frost Quotes, Gears Quotes, Reason Quotes

We disparage reason. But all the time it's what we're most concerned with. There's will as motor and there's will as brakes. Reason is, I suppose, the steering gear.

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Sarcastic Science, she would like to know, In her complacent ministry of fear, How we propose to get away from here When she has made things so we have to go Or be wiped out. Will she be asked to show Us how by rocket we may hope to steer To some star off there, say, a half light-year Through temperature of absolute zero? Why wait for Science to supply the how When any amateur can tell it now? The way to go away should be the same As fifty million years ago we came- If anyone remembers how that was I have a theory, but it hardly does.

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Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.

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Skepticism, is that anything more than we used to mean when we said, Well, what have we here?

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How many times it thundered before Franklin took the hint! How many apples fell on Newton's head before he took the hint! Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.

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He burned his house down for the fire insurance and spent the proceeds on a telescope.

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A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

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It's God - I recognised him from Blake's picture.

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Possessing what we still were unpossessed by, Possessed by what we now no more possessed.

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The land was ours before we were the land's. She was our land more than a hundred years Before we were her people.

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He is all pine and I am apple orchard. My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. He only says, "Good fences make good neighbors.

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There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

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The rose is a rose, And was always a rose. But the theory now goes That the apple's a rose.

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Of course there is matter for remark in poems. Nobody denies that. But it must be solemnly laid on everybody in this world to make his own observations and remarks. That's what we mean by thinking, and that's about all we mean. A teacher says to a pupil "Watch me notice a few things in the next few months: let's see you notice a few things too."

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The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

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The sister's face Fell all in wrinkles of responsibility. She wanted to do right. She'd have to think.

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Far in the pillared dark Thrush music went- Almost like a call to come in To the dark and lament. But no, I was out for stars: I would not come in. I meant not even if asked, And I hadn't been.

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It is only a moment here and a moment there that the greatest writer has. Some cognizance of the fact must be taken in your teaching.

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When I was young, I was so interested in baseball that my family was afraid I'd waste my life and be a pitcher. Later they were afraid I'd waste my life and be a poet. They were right.

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The first thing I do in any town I come to is ask if it has a bookstore.

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