Learning Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let the bird sing without deciphering the song.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Knowledge exists to be imparted.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The years teach us much, which the days never knew.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Excellence is the new forever.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Skill to do comes of doing.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man should carry nature in his head.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The secret in education lies in respecting the student.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The things taught in schools & colleges are not an education but the means of education.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wherever we go, whatever we do, self is the sole subject we study and learn.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. The millions, that around us…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best of life is conversation, and the greatest success is confidence, or perfect understanding between sincere people.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is much better to learn the elements of geology, of botany, or ornithology and astronomy by word of mouth from a…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

This very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Success in your work, the finding a better method, the better understanding that insures the better performing is hat and coat, is…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good as is discourse, silence is better, and shames it. The length of the discourse indicates the distance of thought betwixt the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; he has been put on his wits, on his…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I hear therefore with joy whatever is beginning to be said of the dignity and necessity of labor to every citizen. There…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I know nothing which life has to offer so satisfying as the profound good understanding, which can subsist, after much exchange ofgood…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend, the cold, obscure shelter where moult the wings which will bear…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“What I must do, is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We teach boys to be such men as we are. We do not teach them to aspire to be all they can.…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The proof of a high education is the ability to speak about complex matters as simply as possible.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The man (or woman) who can make hard things easy is the educator.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The book written against fame and learning has the author's name on the title-page.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

An orator or author is never successful till he has learned to make his words smaller than his ideas.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

What we have learned from others becomes our own reflection.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson