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Ralph Waldo Emerson has 2,968 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard…
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If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.
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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
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To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of…
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There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept or…
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Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.
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Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.
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The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial side; has…
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One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol…
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Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.
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The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.
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A little praise goes a great ways.
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Necessity, who is the mother of our invention.
— Plato
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The environment as we perceive it is our invention,
— Heinz von Foerster
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Why do I think that we, the intellectuals, are able to help? Simply because we, the intellectuals, have done the most terrible…
— Karl Popper
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A mind does not receive truth as a chest receives jewels that are put into it, but as the stomach takes up…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention.
— Whitney M. Young
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Before Plato could describe love, the loved one had to be invented. We would never love anybody if we could see past…
— Tom Stoppard
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This is the secret I kept from you, Bails, from myself too: I think I liked that Mom was gone, that she…
— Jandy Nelson
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I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, human liberty as the source of national action, the human heart…
— John F. Kennedy
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