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Learning Quotes by 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 given, forgetful that…
- This very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are…
- Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
- Knowledge exists to be imparted.
- The book written against fame and learning has the author's name on the title-page.
- Excellence is the new forever.
- Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and…
- No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
- Throughout the ages there have always been those who have been willing to go beyond the norms and reach for that unknown and distant star.
- The proof of a high education is the ability to speak about complex matters as simply as possible.
- Let the bird sing without deciphering the song.
- Wherever we go, whatever we do, self is the sole subject we study and learn.
- Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment they desert the…
- I hear therefore with joy whatever is beginning to be said of the dignity and necessity of labor to every citizen. There is virtue yet…
- A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own.
- Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student.
- Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil…
- What terrible questions we are learning to ask! The former men believed in magic, by which temples, cities, and men were swallowed up, and all…
- Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
- To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
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