"Knowledge is the only elegance." — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Knowledge is the only elegance. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Knowledge is the only elegance."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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…
If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.
To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the…
There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not…
Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.
Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.
The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial…
One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the…
Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.
The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.
A little praise goes a great ways.

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What is elegance? Soap and water! — Cecil Beaton
I know that Brighton is famously a mixture of the seedy and the elegant, but in the summer of 2001… — Julie Burchill
Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity. — Coco Chanel
Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken… — Coco Chanel
Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress. — Coco Chanel
Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury. — Coco Chanel
Elegance is refusal. — Coco Chanel
Elegance is elimination. — Cristobal Balenciaga
Elegance is not standing out, but being remembered. — Giorgio Armani
Fashion anticipates, and elegance is a state of mind ... a mirror of the time in which we live, a… — Oleg Cassini
Simplicity, carried to an an extreme, becomes elegance. — Jon Franklin
Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure. — Edsger Dijkstra

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