University Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

8 University quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Ralph Waldo Emerson’s timeless wisdom touches on the university experience in these eight brief quotes. His words encourage independent thought and personal growth within academic walls.

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The value of a dollar is to buy just things; a dollar goes on increasing in value with all the genius and…

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The scholar is that man who must take up into himself all the ability of the time, all the contributions of the…

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The best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mob.

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The university must be retrospective. The gale that gives direction to the vanes on all its towers blows out of antiquity.

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One of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little avail.

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Universities are of course hostile to geniuses.

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The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed.

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Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries…

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Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.

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“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book…

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The order of things consents to virtue.

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Life only avails, not the having lived.

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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…

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A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine.

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No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.

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Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may…

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I am; therefore, I had nothing better to do than to think.

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In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern…

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

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