 | عدد الصفحات: 156
...judgments, even if it seems that we contradict ourselves. So what, Emerson seems to say: A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do — Speak what you think now in hard words and to-morrow speaks what to-morrow thinks in hard words... | |
 | Robert Fogelin - 2003 - عدد الصفحات: 226
...then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot. I will spue thee out of my mouth. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self Reliance" Do I contradict myself? Very well then ... I contradict myself;... | |
 | Ronda Chervin, Lois August Janis - 2003 - عدد الصفحات: 164
...Here are some lines from those who doubt that logic is the only way to steer toward truth: "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. " Emerson (1803-1 882) "No generalization is wholly true, not even this one. Oliver Wendell Holmes,... | |
 | John Weeks - 2004 - عدد الصفحات: 184
...behavior will bring operations grinding to a halt, Emerson's words were never more true: "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...by little statesmen and philosophers and divines." Ambiguity and inconsistency are the manager's hammer and sickle. There is an important ambiguity inherent... | |
 | Stanley Cavell, David Justin Hodge - 2003 - عدد الصفحات: 300
...leaving or reliefor quitting or release or shunning or allowing or deliverance, which is freedom as in "Leave your theory as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot, and flee"), together further with something he means by trusting or suffering (as in the image of the traveler... | |
 | Laura Dassow Walls - 2003 - عدد الصفحات: 302
..."Whim." Anticipating objections, he deflates them with one of his best-known oneliners: "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines."40 And yet, how inconsistent is Emerson, really? Perhaps there are no inconsistencies if the... | |
 | James P. Pfiffner - 2003 - عدد الصفحات: 230
...US News and World Report, May 10, 1999, p. 10, in the "Washington Whispers" section. 19. "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do." From Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance and Other Essays (New York: Dover Publications, 1993), p. 24.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - عدد الصفحات: 284
...of the soul come, yield to them heart and life, though they should clothe God with shape and color. Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand...and flee. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of litde minds, adored by litde statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul... | |
 | Douglas S. Lavine - 2004 - عدد الصفحات: 228
...their own set of rules. As Ralph Waldo Emerson stated in his famous essay, Self-Reliance: "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...by little statesmen and philosophers and divines." I hope nobody reading this book will conclude that I believe my suggestions and advice are written... | |
 | Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell - 2004 - عدد الصفحات: 598
...don't exactly go that far with him, are interesting: 'A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has little or nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you... | |
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. 
