"Genius is power, talent is applicability." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Genius is power, talent is applicability."
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2,823 Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the…
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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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An inventor is one who can see the applicability of means to supply demand five years before it is obvious…
— Reginald Fessenden
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A theory is the more impressive the greater is the simplicity of its premises, the more different are the kinds…
— Albert Einstein
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A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises is, the more different kinds of things…
— Albert Einstein
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From the physician, as emphatically the student of Nature, is expected not only an inquiry into cause, but an investigation…
— John Gorrie
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Why does everyone take for granted that we don't learn to grow arms, but rather, are designed to grow arms?…
— Noam Chomsky
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The aim of the poet is to inform or delight, or to combine together, in what he says, both pleasure…
— Horace
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The language of intrinsic human rights represented a significant advance beyond the previous language of world religions in terms of…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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There is nothing mysterious, as some have tried to maintain, about the applicability of mathematics. What we get by abstraction…
— Raymond Louis Wilder
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Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction to utility or applicability, that is, to what serves morality or produces…
— Karl Jaspers
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A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no lustre as you turn it in your hand…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The cry that 'fantasy is escapist' compared to the novel is only an echo of the older cry that novels…
— Tom Shippey
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A Beethoven string-quartet is truly, as some one has said, a scraping of horses' tails on cats' bowels, and may…
— William James
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