Conviction Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is a time in every mans education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance

— Emerson

There comes a time in each man's education in which he comes to the conclusion that envy is ignorance, imitation is suicide, and society…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The real purpose of education in a person's life should be able to make him transform his envy into admiration.

— Vikrant Parsai

It is always better to imitate a successful man than to envy him.

— Napoleon Hill

Education has to cultivate humility and discipline, but today it is yielding a harvest of pride and envy.

— Sai Baba

Man often acquires just so much knowledge as to discover his ignorance, and attains so much experience as to regret his follies, and then…

— William Benton Clulow

Nothing has so exposed men of learning to contempt and ridicule as their ignorance of things which are known to all but themselves. Those…

— Samuel Johnson

Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.

— Anonymous

“The utopian desire for an egalitarian society cannot, however, have sprung from any other motive than that of an inability to come to terms…

— Helmut Schoeck

So long as a man remains a gregarious and sociable being, he cannot cut himself off from the gratification of the instinct of imparting…

— James Joseph Sylvester