"No man thoroughly understands a truth until he……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it."
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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…
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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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in the spring he will attend your botanical course. his natural turn is very strongly to the objects of your…
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Many companies have long contended that stress in the home causes productivity loss in the market place.. and it does.…
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Some persons have contended that mathematics ought to be taught by making the illustrations obvious to the senses. Nothing can…
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But if we are to be told by a foreign Power . . . what we shall do, and what…
— George Washington
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I go further, and affirm that bills of rights, in the sense and to the extent in which they are…
— Alexander Hamilton
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I acknowledge, in the ordinary course of government, that the exposition of the laws and Constitution devolves upon the judicial.…
— James Madison
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Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor. Here brave men struggled and died for the…
— Adlai E. Stevenson
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I have not contended for Democrat, Republican, Protestant or Baptist for an agent. I have worked for freedom, I have…
— Sarah Winnemucca
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If nobody talks about books, if they are not discussed or somehow contended with, literature ceases to be a conversation,…
— Patricia Hampl
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Blessed be the memory of those few brethren who contended so strenuously for their constitutional rights and religious freedom, against…
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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Everyone should do all in his power to collect and disseminate the truth, in the hope that it may find…
— Robert E. Lee
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There was not a member of the Constitutional Convention who had the least objection to what is contended for by…
— George Washington
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