Intellect Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

If a man's eye is on the Eternal, his intellect will grow.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tis good-will makes intelligence.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is an intimate interdependence of intellect and morals.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Genius is intellect constructive.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature is good, but intellect is better, as the law-giver is before the law-receiver.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is genius as well in virtue as in intellect. 'Tis the doctrine of faith over works.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sorrow makes us all children again - destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest know nothing.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The resources of the scholar are proportioned to his confidence in the attributes of the intellect.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The essence of age is intellect. Wherever that appears, we call it old.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

Our expense is almost all for conformity. It is for cake that we run in debt; 'tis not the intellect, not the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Character repudiates intellect, yet excites it; and character passes into thought, is published so, and then is ashamed before newflashes of moral…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

But every jet of chaos which threatens to exterminate us is convertible by intellect into wholesome force. Fate is unpenetrated causes.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

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

The scholar was not raised by the sacred thoughts amongst which he dwelt, but used them to selfish ends. He was a…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

By virtue of this science the poet is the Namer, or Language-maker, naming things sometimes after their appearance, sometimes after their essence,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness; a non performance of that…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The earth is a machine which yields almost gratuitous service to every application of intellect. Every plant is a manufacturer of soil.…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“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

“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

Everything is beautiful seen from the point of the intellect, or as truth. But all is sour if seen as experience.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

[Whenever the average intellect of the clergy declines in the balance with the average intellect of the people] the churches will be…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The constructive intellect [genius] produces thoughts, sentences, poems, plans, designs, systems. It is the generation of the mind, the marriage of thought…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Imagination is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being where and what…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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