Brain Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

18 Brain quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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For a taste of 19th‑century philosophical musings on mental power, Emerson’s eighteen reflections blend nature, self‑reliance, and the workings of the mind.

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After you have pumped your brains for thoughts and verses, there is a better poetry hinted in whistling a tune on your…

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The young men were born with knives in their brain, a tendency to introversion, self-dissection, anatomizing of motives.

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A scholar does not wish to be always pumping his brains; he wants gossips.

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Wisdom is not found with those who dwell at their ease; rather nature, when she adds brain, adds difficulty.

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Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave, or they are no better than dreams

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The light by which we see in this world comes out from the soul of the observer. Wherever any noble sentiment dwelt,…

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I am the owner of the sphere, Of the seven stars and the solar year, of Caesar's hand, and Plato's brain, Of…

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It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the…

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If thou fill thy brain with Boston and New York, with fashion and covetousness, and wilt stimulate thy jaded senses with wine…

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If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war…

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War, to sane men at the present day, begins to look like an epidemic insanity, breaking out here and there like the…

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Great is the art, Great be the manners, of the bard. He shall not his brain encumber With the coil of rhythm…

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You must elect your work; you shall take what your brains can, and drop all the rest. Only so can that amount…

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Time, which shows so vacant, indivisible, and divine in its coming, is slit and peddled into trifles and tatters. A door is…

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The mind is a finer body, and resumes its functions of feeding, digesting, absorbing, excluding, and generating, in a new and ethereal…

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Man carries the world in his head, the whole astronomy and chemistry suspended in a thought. Because the history of nature is…

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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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We do not yet trust the unknown powers of thought. Whence came all these tools, inventions, book laws, parties, kingdoms? Out of…

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The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records…

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If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular…

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If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the…

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A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his…

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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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“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book…

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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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Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power…

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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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