Sentences with phrase «hobgoblin of little minds»
When I was an undergraduate in the 1960s out in the Western provinces (Colorado, it was), my instructors (Democrats to a man, no women in what was called the History and Government Department at Colorado State University in those benighted times) not only encouraged me to make the most of myself, they taught me that conspiracy theory was the hobgoblin of little minds, like those of the local John Birchers.
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As consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, so, too, does it sustain the steadfast soul.
But of course the danger is that sometimes people SHOULD change their minds, and it would be a tragedy if the fear of old quotes and video clips pushed public figures into pursuing that hobgoblin of little minds, foolish consistency.
(Remember, a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.)
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, «A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds...» but he didn't have this Stephen Sprouse skirt.
Such a thought must now lead me remind you of Ralph Waldo Emerson and state that «foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.»
He's made other great films, but if a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, Francis Ford Coppola's brain is as big as they get.
Arguments that «a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds» are to no avail in Washington state, where the rescoring of last spring's writing test will penalize students who used writing conventions inconsistently.
He implied that the trait was a virtue and evidence of a superior intellect, quoting Ralph Waldo Emerson's aphorism, «A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen, philosophers and divines.»
I know I am anti-zombie books but: «A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.»
So I'll let Ralph Waldo Emerson offer my final words here: «A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.»
«Foolish consistency» may be the hobgoblin of little minds, but the president's back flips on foreign policy have left officials more bewildered than usual.