A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. Essays - 第 52 頁Ralph Waldo Emerson 著 - 1848 - 333 頁完整檢視 - 關於此書
| Mary Edwards Calhoun, Emma Leonora MacAlarney - 1915 - 670 頁
...though they should clothe God with shape and color. Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot, and flee. A foolish consistency is...nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with the shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow... | |
| George Townsend Warner - 1915 - 196 頁
...march ; yea, and the care of it sometimes loseth or disturbeth the victory. BACON'S ESSAYS. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. EMERSON'S ESSAYS. 20. NA WALTON ESSAY "A FROSTY MORNING" [Hitherto we have had extracts from authors... | |
| 1915 - 638 頁
...consistency that is worth while is the consistency of endeavor in seeking the truth. Emerson: "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. If you would be a man, speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls, and tomorrow speak... | |
| Charles Sumner Olcott - 1916 - 456 頁
...degree by the most enlightened public sentiment, makes a poor public servant. Emerson says, " A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do." McKinley was not one of those who allow consistency to "scare them from their self-trust." If he made... | |
| 1929 - 398 頁
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| Cornelius Howard Patton - 1919 - 266 頁
...compulsion of a world situation which no human mind could have foreseen. Emerson's saying, "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...by little statesmen and philosophers and divines," brought comforting reflections to many. This humble-mindedness was more creditable to our spirit than... | |
| Percy Holmes Boynton - 1919 - 528 頁
...in this or that public place ? Suppose you should contradict yourself ; what then ? . . . A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. This sort of balancing of his views of independence is to be found in an essay of thirty years later... | |
| Frank Crane - 1920 - 328 頁
...contradiction is equivalent to a lie. The truth, however, is quite the contrary. Con146 Emerson said that "consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...little statesmen, and philosophers, and divines." And I have known but two classes of people who were absolutely consistent — idiots and dead men.... | |
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