"If a man knew anything, he would sit……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down, and hits on extraordinary discoveries."
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2,823 Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson has 2,823 quotes on this site.
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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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Shaped a little like a loaf of French country bread, our brain is a crowded chemistry lab, bustling with nonstop…
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Don't you long to shout to those youths who are bustling around you: Fools! Leave those worldly things that shackle…
— Josemaria Escriva
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And then, build a bustling wonderful city of the 21st century, with a restoration of a spectacular skyline, which Manhattan,…
— Daniel Libeskind
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It is as though the practices organizing a bustling city were characterized by [city practitioners', everyday citizens'] blindness. The neworks…
— Michel de Certeau
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As a spiritual person, nature for me has always been a healing place. Going back all the way to my…
— David Mixner
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If I brought you down to the size of an individual cell so that you could see your body from…
— Bruce H. Lipton
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I look at the books on my library shelves. They certainly seem dormant. But what if the characters are quietly…
— Verlyn Klinkenborg
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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form…
— Cyril Connolly
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The rise of broadband and growing ubiquity of Internet access excites me the most. The world changes a lot when,…
— Matt Mullenweg
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Today's terrorists are pursuing a distinct route. They are increasingly attacking civilians in symbolic targets, such as those of economic…
— Cliff Stearns
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I enter a most earnest plea that in our hurried and rather bustling life of today we do not lose…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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Was it possible that a bustling display of energy might only be a camouflage for a spiritual vacuum? The thought…
— Arthur Gordon Webster
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