I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Is not prayer a study of truth, a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily without… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The Roman rule was, to teach a boy nothing that he could not learn standing. The old English rule was, "All summer… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For all men live by truth, and stand in need of expression. In love, in art, in avarice, in politics, in labor,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A sturdy lad from New Hampshire or Vermont who in turn tries all the professions, who teams it, farms it, peddles, keeps… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Wherever we go, whatever we do, self is the sole subject we study and learn. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The age of puberty is a crisis in the age of man worth studying. It is the passage from the unconscious 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
A wise writer will feel that the ends of study and composition are best answered by announcing undiscovered regions of thought, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Then, though I prize my friends, I cannot afford to talk with them and study their visions, lest I lose my own.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Is not prayer also a study of truth,--a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily, without… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
He walks abreast with his days and feels no shame in not 'studying a profession', for he does not postpone his life,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The regular course of studies, the years of academical and professional education, have not yielded me better facts than some idle books… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Oxford is a little aristocracy in itself, numerous and dignified enough to rank with other estates in the realm; and where fame… — 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
'Tis a good rule in every journey to provide some piece of liberal study to rescue the hours which bad weather, bad… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their own creed and yours; whilst the charm… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
...man is an analogist, and studies relations in all objects. He is placed in the center of beings, and a ray of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There is no better way to exercise the imagination than the study of the law. — 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
