"Between cultivated minds the first interview is..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Between cultivated minds the first interview is the best.
More by Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The population of the world is a conditional population; these are not the best, but the best that could live in the existing state of soils, gases, animals, and morals: the best that could yet live; there shall be a better, please God.”
“In politics and in trade, bruisers and pirates are of better promise than talkers and clerks.”
“My tongue is prone to lose the way,Not so my pen, for in a letterWe have not better things to say,But surely put them better.”
More on Communication
“We want to gently remind people that we don't have forever. In my work, I hear parents complain all the time that their children grow up so fast. But they don't take the time to sit down and talk to each other. The last bastion of getting together is around the table.”
“The road to the heart is the ear”
“Is there anyone to whom you entrust a greater number of serious matters than your wife? And is there anyone with whom you have fewer conversations?”
More on Intellect
“The learned and the studious of thought have no monopoly of wisdom. Their violence of direction in some degree disqualifies them to think truly.”
“Painting fulfills a need to be non-intellectual. There are times when we have to get our brains out in our fingers.”
“The Intellect engages us in the pursuit of Truth. The Passions impel us to Action.”