In my utter impotence to test the authenticity of the report of my senses, to know whether the impressions they make on… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If we consider what happens in conversation, in reveries, in remorse, in times of passion, in surprises, in the instructions of dreams,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In strict science, all persons underlie the same condition of an infinite remoteness. Shall we fear to cool our love by mining… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Yet things are knowable! They are knowable, because, being from one, things correspond. There is a scale: and the correspondence of heaven… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
But also the constituency determines the vote of the representative. He is not only representative, but participant. Like can onlybe known by… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Many times the reading of a book has made the future of a man. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A fact is the end or last issue of spirit. The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisible… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I like to have a person's knowledge comprehend more than one class of topics, one row of shelves. I like a person… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When I behold a rich landscape, it is less to my purpose to recite correctly the order and superposition of the strata,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Knowledge is when you learn something new every day. Wisdom is when you let something go every day. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery or a large bequest to a poor… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Knowledge is the antidote to fear. [especially as fear often stands for false evidence appearing real!] — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation -rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The end of being is to know; and if you say, the end of knowledge is action,-why, yes, but the end of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Each is liable to panic, which is exactly, the terror of ignorance surrendered to the imagination. Knowledge is the encourager, knowledge that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
And, in fine, the ancient precept, "Know thyself," and the modern precept, "Study nature," become at last one maxim. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To make knowledge valuable, you must have the cheerfulness of wisdom. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nature avenges herself speedily on the hard pedantry that would chain her waves. She is no literalist. Every thing must be taken… — 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
You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
And what avails it that science has come to treat space and time as simply forms of thought, and the material world… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
God never jests with us, and will not compromise the end of nature, by permitting any inconsequence in its procession. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The wheels and springs of man are all set to the hypothesis of the permanence of nature. We are not built like… — 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
