When he has seen, that it is not his, nor any man's, but it is the soul which made the world, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Culture implies all which gives the mind possession of its own powers, as languages to the critic, telescope to the astronomer. Culture… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The intellect searches out the Absolute order of things as they stand in the mind of God, and without the colors of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The growth of the intellect is spontaneous in every expansion. The mind that grows could not predict the times, the means, the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All the facts of nature are nouns of the intellect, and make the grammar of the eternal language. Every word has a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The intellect,-that is miraculous! Who has it, has the talisman: his skin and bones, though they were of the color of night,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false,--this is the mark and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I have heard that whoever loves is in no condition old. I have heard that whenever the name of man is spoken,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“God offers to every mind a choice between repose and truth. take which you please--you can never have both. [Essay on Intellect]” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“It is a secret which every intellectual man quickly learns, that, beyond the energy of his possessed and conscious intellect, he is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function; living is the functionary. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All goes to show that the soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises all the organs; is not… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A breath of will blows eternally through the universe of souls in the direction of Right and Necessity. It is the air… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner, or before taking… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Everything is beautiful seen from the point of the intellect, or as truth. But all is sour if seen as experience. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
So shall we come to look at the world with new eyes. It shall answer the endless inquiry of the intellect, —… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I have been told, that in some public discourses of mine my reverence for the intellect has made me unjustly cold to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The resources of the scholar are proportioned to his confidence in the attributes of the intellect. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The intellect is vagabond, and our system of education fosters restlessness. Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay at… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
