If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Law rules throughout existence, a Law which is not intelligent, but Intelligence. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The miracles of genius always rest on profound convictions which refuse to be analyzed. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No power of genius has ever yet had the smallest success in explaining existence. The perfect enigma remains. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The genius of life is friendly to the noble, and, in the dark, brings them friends from far. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Intellect is a fire; rash and pitiless it melts this wonderful bone-house which is called man. Genius even, as it is the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is a genius of a nation, which is not to be found in the numerical citizens, but which characterizes the society. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
But it is impossible that the creative power should exclude itself. Into every intelligence there is a door which is never closed,through… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Intellect is void of affection and sees an object as it stands in the light of science, cool and disengaged. The intellect… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is true that the discerning intellect of the world is always much in advance of the creative, so that there are… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Genius is the naturalist or geographer of the supersensible regions, and draws their map; and, by acquainting us with new fields of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is true that genius takes its rise out of the mountains of rectitude; that all beauty and power which men covet… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Many a profound genius, I suppose, who fills the world with fame of his exploding renowned errors, is yet everyday posed and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The genius is a genius by the first look he casts on any object. Is his eye creative? Does he not rest… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is no doctrine of the Reason which will bear to be taught by the Understanding. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nature is good, but intellect is better, as the law-giver is before the law-receiver. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Genius is the power to labor better and more availably. Deserve thy genius: exalt it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The intelligent have a right over the ignorant; namely, the right of instructing them. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Genius, even, as it is the greatest good, is he greatest harm. — 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
