"The constructive intellect [genius] produces thoughts, sentences, poems,……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The constructive intellect [genius] produces thoughts, sentences, poems, plans, designs, systems. It is the generation of the mind, the marriage of thought with nature."
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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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I believe if a private citizen is able to affect public opinion in a constructive way he doesn't have to…
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You have the freedom to live and let live, to love and let love. Granting yourself that freedom is one…
— Martha Beck
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Constructive criticism is about finding something good and positive to soften the blow to the real critique of what really…
— Paula Abdul
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But more than anything else, we have learned that legal assistance for the poor, when properly provided, is one of…
— Richard M. Nixon
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International educational exchange is the most significant current project designed to continue the process of humanizing mankind to the point,…
— J. William Fulbright
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Discovery comes as a result of positive discontent, a constructive dissatisfaction. In fact, one might quite truthfully say that there…
— Unknown Author
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My creed is that public service must be more than doing a job efficiently and honestly. It must be a…
— Margaret Chase Smith
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The more and more each is impelled by that which is intuitive, or the relying upon the soul force within,…
— Edgar Cayce
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What humanity owes to personalities like Buddha, Moses, and Jesus ranks for me higher than all the achievements of the…
— Albert Einstein
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Simplicity has power. Founding our life on constructive, positive behavior is the simplest, most direct, and powerful approach I've ever…
— Dan Millman
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... [I]nfectious disease is merely a disagreeable instance of a widely prevalent tendency of all living creatures to save themselves…
— Hans Zinsser
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In the study of this membrane [the retina] I for the first time felt my faith in Darwinism (hypothesis of…
— Santiago Ramon y Cajal
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