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Pure Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge.
- I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor…
- Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold it's great proportions.
- Nature is a rag-merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations; like a good chemist, whom I found, the other…
- It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but to bring…
- The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure, that it is profane to seek to interpose helps.
- The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. . . . They look…
- But I cannot recite, even thus rudely, laws of the intellect, without remembering that lofty and sequestered class of men who have been its prophets…
- Nothing shall warp me from the belief that every man is a lover of truth. There is no pure lie, no pure malignity in nature.…
- Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every…
- So shall we come to look at the world with new eyes. It shall answer the endless inquiry of the intellect, — What is truth?…
More Pure Quotes
- O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet. — Saint Augustine
- A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by… — Alain Badiou
- Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. — James A. Baldwin
- True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white… — Honore de Balzac
- I'm as pure as the driven slush. — Tallulah Bankhead
- But the West is trying to weaken Islam from outside and inside. They attack our people and invade our countries from outside,… — Abu Bakar Bashir
- I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom. — Simone de Beauvoir
- Only the pure in heart can make a good soup. — Ludwig van Beethoven
- Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup. — Ludwig van Beethoven
- I get so nervous on stage I can't help but talk. I try. I try telling my brain: stop sending words to… — Adele
- There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world. — Nikolai Berdyaev
- You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements… — Henri Bergson