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Wisdom Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

136 Wisdom quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and the quotes link hardship to learning. They describe love and fear as teachers that sharpen insight, and they compare wisdom to a temple that holds good. The ideas stress finding how to live to fulfill potential.

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Let us be poised, wise and our own today.

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Self trust is the essence of heroism.

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Knowledge is the antidote to fear

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[Gratitude is] the cheerfulness of wisdom.

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Body cannot teach wisdom; God only.

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Humility is the secret of the wise.

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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser.

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

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The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear

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Fear is an instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions.

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

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When an argument flares up, the wise man quenches it with silence

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The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

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

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The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.

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Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.

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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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We judge of a man's wisdom by his hope, knowing that the inexhaustibleness of nature is an immortal youth.

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Freedom is not the right to live as we please, but the right to find how we ought to live in order…

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Therefore we value the poet. All the argument and all the wisdom is not in the encyclopedia, or the treatise on metaphysics,…

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I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and…

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Manners have been somewhatcynically defined to be a contrivance of wise men to keep fools at a distance. Fashion is shrewd to…

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Much of the wisdom of the world is not wisdom, and the most illuminated class of men are no doubt superior to…

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“The learned and the studious of thought have no monopoly of wisdom. Their violence of direction in some degree disqualifies them to…

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It is so wonderful to our neurologists that a man can see without his eyes, that it does not occur to them…

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Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out…

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Manners have been somewhat cynically defined to be a contrivance of wise men to keep fools at a distance. Fashion is shrewd…

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When life has been well spent, age is a loss of what it can well spare,--muscular strength, organic instincts, gross bulk, and…

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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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Our people are slow to learn the wisdom of sending character instead of talent to Congress. Again and again they have sent…

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Now that is the wisdom of a man, in every instance of his labor, to hitch his wagon to a star, and…

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The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when…

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It must be that when God speaketh, he should communicate, not one thing, but all things; should fill the world with his…

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All life is an experiment. Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it…

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“The world—this shadow of the soul, or other me, lies wide around. Its attractions are the keys which unlock my thoughts and…

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“Of course, there is a portion of reading quite indispensable to a wise man. History and exact science he must learn by…

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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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It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to…

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A little consideration of what takes place around us every day would show us that a higher law than that of our…

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Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.

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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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Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may…

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

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In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern…

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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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