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Intelligence Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Ralph Waldo Emerson says genius is the power to work better and more usefully. He encourages us to accept our own genius, to look closely at design, and to speak only when ideas are invited. He also warns that pride can hurt talent, and that true intelligence is the ability to tell what is true from what is false.

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Self trust is the essence of heroism.

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Genius has no taste for weaving sand.

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Genius is its own end.

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Life is a festival only to the wise.

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Genius appeals to the future.

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Wise men are not wise at all times.

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“Genius is religious.”

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We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.

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Genius is the power to labor better and more availably. Deserve thy genius: exalt it.

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Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks he is free.

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When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

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The world is plentiful with honey, but only the humble bee can collect it.

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One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

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Genius, even, as it is the greatest good, is he greatest harm.

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The intelligent have a right over the ignorant; namely, the right of instructing them.

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There is no doctrine of the Reason which will bear to be taught by the Understanding.

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Two sorts of writers possess genius: those who think, and those who cause others to think.

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Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.

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Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function; living is the functionary.

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We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.

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The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is…

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Genius has infused itself into nature. It indicates itself by a small excess of good, a small balance in brute facts always…

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But genius looks forward: the eyes of men are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead: man hopes: genius creates.

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The difference between talent and genius is in the direction of the current: in genius, it is from within outward; in talent…

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The genius is a genius by the first look he casts on any object. Is his eye creative? Does he not rest…

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In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state, he is, Man Thinking. In the degenerate…

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Many a profound genius, I suppose, who fills the world with fame of his exploding renowned errors, is yet everyday posed and…

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It is true that genius takes its rise out of the mountains of rectitude; that all beauty and power which men covet…

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The secret of genius is to suffer no fiction to exist for us; to realize all that we know; in the high…

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But I cannot recite, even thus rudely, laws of the intellect, without remembering that lofty and sequestered class of men who have…

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The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense…

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Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within, going abroad only for audience,…

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“It is a secret which every intellectual man quickly learns, that, beyond the energy of his possessed and conscious intellect, he is…

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Genius detects through the fly, through the caterpillar, through the grub, through the egg, the constant individual; through countless individuals the fixed…

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The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. . .…

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It is the delight of vulgar talent to dazzle and to bind the beholder. But true genius seeks to defend us from…

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The intellect searches out the Absolute order of things as they stand in the mind of God, and without the colors of…

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Common sense is as rare as genius.

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Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.

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Accept your genius and say what you think.

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The order of things consents to virtue.

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Life only avails, not the having lived.

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A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine.

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No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.

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I am; therefore, I had nothing better to do than to think.

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