Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Roots Quotes, Intellectual Quotes

Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance.

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Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development.

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In Shankaracharya we saw tremendous intellectual power, throwing the scorching light of reason upon everything.

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Besides the general infusion of wit to heighten civility, the direct splendor of intellectual power is ever welcome in fine society, as the costliest addition to its rule and its credit.

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For such is man: a Theological Dogma might be refuted to him a thousand times - provided however, that he had need of it, he would again and again accept it as true. Belief is always most desired, most pressingly needed where there is a lack of will. Fanaticism is the sole "volitional strength" to which the weak and irresolute can be excited, as a sort of hypnotising of the entire sensory-intellectual system.

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The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on a dim and perilous way!

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Intellectual food is like any other; it is pleasanter and more beneficial to take it with a spoon than a shovel.

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I have always disliked the fierce competitive spirit embodied in that highly intellectual game.

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I am afraid that you have been listening to the conversation of someone older than yourself. That is always a dangerous thing to do, and if you allow it to degenerate into a habit, you will find it absolutely fatal to any intellectual development.

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Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity. If a man should consider the nicety of the passage of a piece of bread down his throat, he would starve.

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I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never write anything but mediocre poetry.

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It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects.

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From passions grow opinions; intellectual laziness lets these harden into convictions.

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May not men earn their bread by intellectual labor? No, the needs of the body must be supplied by the body.

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Genius must have talent as its complement and implement, just as in like manner imagination must have fancy. In short, the higher intellectual powers can only act through a corresponding energy of the lower.

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Some are born great, others achieve greatness.

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The greatest intellectual capacities are only found in connection with a vehement and passionate will.

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Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

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Strenuous intellectual work and the study of God's Nature are the angels that will lead me through all the troubles of this life with consolation, strength, and uncompromising rigor.

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Intellectual freedom depends upon material things.

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