Emerson instructed us to “Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your reading have been to you like the blast of truimpth out of Shakespeare, Seneca, Moses, John and Paul.”

Following Emerson’s guidance, I offer some of my favorite blasts of triumph. You can search by topic or by teacher or you can just hit refresh and keep getting 5 new random quotes below:-

• An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.

  ~ Aldous Huxley quotes

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• I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others… I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.

  ~ Thomas A. Edison quotes

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• I am not more gifted than the average human being. If you know anything about history, you would know that is so--what hard times I had in studying and the fact that I do not have a memory like some other people do… I am just more curious than the average person and I will not give up on a problem until I have found the proper solution. This is one of my greatest satisfactions in life--solving problems--and the harder they are, the more satisfaction do I get out of them. Maybe you could consider me a bit more patient in continuing with my problem than is the average human being. Now, if you understand what I have just told you, you see that it is not a matter of being more gifted but a matter of being more curious and maybe more patient until you solve a problem.

  ~ Albert Einstein quotes from The Private Albert Einstein; p. 29

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• My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

  ~ Lee Iacocca quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Great, Life, Friend, Friends

• Force I will meet with gentleness; impatience with patience.

  ~ Walter Russell quotes from The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe

  Self-Development Quotes on: Patience, Secret, Universe

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