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Knowledge Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

77 Knowledge quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A moon shining over a quiet field reminds us that the night can teach us about the universe. The quotes say that hard work, suffering, and curiosity are teachers that turn experience into wisdom. They also compare learning to opening a book, where each page reveals a new part of nature’s secret story.

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Knowledge exists to be imparted.

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Knowledge is the knowing that we cannot know.

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Knowledge is the antidote to fear

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There is no knowledge that is not power

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Knowledge is the only elegance.

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Let the bird sing without deciphering the song.

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All things are known to the soul.

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We know more from nature than we can at will communicate.

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“The soul is superior to its knowledge; wiser than any of its works.”

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And, in fine, the ancient precept, "Know thyself," and the modern precept, "Study nature," become at last one maxim.

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God never jests with us, and will not compromise the end of nature, by permitting any inconsequence in its procession.

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Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom.

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The chief value of the new fact is to enhance the great and constant fact of life.

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Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.

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Many times the reading of a book has made the future of a man.

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

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The connection between our knowledge and the abyss of being is still real, and the explication must be not less magnificent.

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“We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation -rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and…

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I shun father and mother and wife and brother when my genius calls me. I would write on the lintels of the…

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I like to have a person's knowledge comprehend more than one class of topics, one row of shelves. I like a person…

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The difference between the actual and the ideal force of man is happily figured in by the schoolmen, in saying, that the…

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There are many virtues in books, but the essential value is the adding of knowledge to our stock by the record of…

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The wheels and springs of man are all set to the hypothesis of the permanence of nature. We are not built like…

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We live in a system of approximations. Every end is prospective of some other end, which is also temporary; a round and…

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Each is liable to panic, which is exactly, the terror of ignorance surrendered to the imagination. Knowledge is the encourager, knowledge that…

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The refining influence is the study of art, which is the science of beauty; and I find that every man values every…

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Men are not philosophers, but are rather very foolish children, who, by reason of their partiality, see everything in the most absurd…

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It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery or a large bequest to a poor…

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“Why covet a knowledge of new facts? Day and night, house and garden, a few books, a few actions, serve us as…

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A mind does not receive truth as a chest receives jewels that are put into it, but as the stomach takes up…

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Go out of the house to see the moon, and 't is mere tinsel; it will not please as when its light…

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Of lower states, of acts of routine and sense, we can tell somewhat; but the masterpieces of God, the total growths and…

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

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If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads, just one year afterwards.

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The great man, that is, the man most imbued with the spirit of the time, is the impressionable man.

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I am present at the sowing of the seed of the world. With a geometry of sunbeams, the soul lays the foundations…

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Knowledge is the antidote to fear. [especially as fear often stands for false evidence appearing real!]

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Knowledge, Virtue, Power are the victories of man over his necessities, his march to the dominion of the world.

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We are impressed and even daunted by the immense Universe to be explored. "What we know is a point to what we…

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You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit.

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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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The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a…

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