Know thyself Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

And, in fine, the ancient precept, "Know thyself," and the modern precept, "Study nature," become at last one maxim.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Where is there virtue in this world that is of any practical good whose vital force is not to be found in example rather…

— Edward Hooker Dewey

“Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge, and how much happier…

— Mary Shelley

“Thus to him, to this school-boy under the bending dome of day, is suggested, that he and it proceed from one root; one is…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There is divine beauty in learning... To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others have been…

— Elie Wiesel

“You will study the wisdom of the past, for in a wilderness of conflicting counsels, a trail has there been blazed. You will study…

— Benjamin N. Cardozo

“Patiently following after nature ultimately enables us, in Descartes’ words, to “make ourselves, as it were, the lords and masters of nature” (PWD 1:142–43).”

— Lee Braver

“To be knowledgeable, sit before scholars; to be wise, sit before life.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“The ancient teachings we’ve inherited were developed through the enlightened observation of life in all its forms and expressions.”

— Leslie Kaminoff

“A method to understand one's true nature is by going back in time to one’s earliest memories, the roots of one’s mind. This comprehension…

— VD

“Action, and not knowledge, is man's destiny and duty in this life; and his highest principles, both in philosophy and in religion, have reference…

— Henry Longueville Mansel

“Nature is relic of pre-human civilizations.”

— Toba Beta