| "Numbers are essential, but not absolutely essential to strength. For many churches are numerically strong but lamentably weak spiritually. Numbers, then, are no display of spiritual power or strength." »W. T. Ussery |
| "Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality." »Bertrand Russell |
| "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly what is essential is invisible to the eye." »Antoine De Saint-Exupery |
| "Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information." »Mark Twain |
| "Love is a condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own." »Robert Anson Heinlein |
| "It's essential that a part of you not grow up. Childhood wonder gives us our spark and beauty." »Robin Quivers |
| "The essential matter of history is not what happened but what people thought or said about it." »Frederic William Maitland |
| "Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem." »Jiddu Krishnamurti |
| "It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important." »Sren Aaby Kierkegaard |
| "The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it." »John Updike |
| "Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress." »Lloyd Alexander |
| "Risk is essential. There is not growth of inspiration in staying within what is safe and comfortable. Once you find out what you do best, why not try something else" »Alex Noble |
| "There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob." »G. K. Chesterton |
| "A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism-a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else." »Richard Hofstadter |
| "The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come." »James Whitcomb Riley |
| "I conceive the essential task of religion to be to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind." »Robert Millikan |
| "Six essential qualities that are the key to success Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity." »Dr. William Claire Menninger |
| "My life is the story of a man who always wants to carry too much. My spiritual quest is the painful process of learning to let go of things not essential." »Real Live Preacher |
| "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." »Henry David Thoreau |
| "Long ago we stated the reason for labour organizations. We said that union was essential to give labourers opportunity to deal on an equality with their employers." »US Supreme Court |
| "The aim of sadism is to transform a man into a thng, something animate into something inanimate, since by complete and absolute control the living loses one essential quality of life-freedom." »Erich Fromm |
| "The religious community is essential, for alone our vision is too narrow to see all that must be seen. Together, our vision widens and strength is renewed." »Mark Morrison-Reed |
| "The nature of men and women - their essential nature - is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as he really is, no one would believe you." »W. Somerset Maugham |
| "I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature." »John Davidson Rockefeller, Sr. |
| "A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control." »Robert F. Bennett |
| "Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life." »Charles Scribner, Jr. |
| "The really potent part of love is that it allows you to carry around beliefs about yourself that make you feel special, desirable, precious, innately good. Your lover couldn't have seen these qualities in you, even temporarily, if they weren't part of your essential being." »Martha Beck |
| "Solitude, in the sense of being often alone, is essential to any depth of meditation or of character and solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur, is the cradle of thought and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society could ill do without." »John Stuart Mill |
| "The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science." »Albert Einstein |
| "Knowledge is essential to conquest only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment." »Anne Besant |
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