Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Prayer Quotes, Knowledge Quotes

Is not prayer also a study of truth,--a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily, without learningsomething. But when a faithful thinker, resolute to detach every object from personal relations, and see it in the light of thought, shall, at the same time, kindle science with the fire of the holiest affections, then will God go forth anew into creation.

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But also the constituency determines the vote of the representative. He is not only representative, but participant. Like can onlybe known by like. The reason why he knows about them is, that he is of them; he has just come out of nature, or from being a part of the thing.

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I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

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What are man's truths ultimately? Merely his irrefutable errors.

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CONSOLATION, n. The knowledge that a better man is more unfortunate than yourself.

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The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no in the endeavor of science. We do not know in advance who will discover fundamental insights.

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The superior student listens to the Way and follows it closely. The average student listens to the Way and follows some and some not. The lesser student listens to the Way and laughs out loud. If there were no laughter it would not be the Way.

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All difficulties are easy when they are known.

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[Misquotation; not by Einstein.] If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. [Apparently remorseful for his role in the development of the atom bomb.]

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There is nothing higher than reason.

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All our knowledge begins with the senses...

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Reason without learning is like the untilled soil, or like the human body that lacks nourishment.

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The right to know is like the right to live. It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption that knowledge, like life, is a desirable thing.

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Not to have knowledge of what happened before you were born is to be condemned to live as a child.

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To each individual the world will take on a different connotation of meaning-the important lies in the desire to search for an answer.

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Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offence. Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That wants it down.

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The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.

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When wisdom and knowledge appear, great pretense arises.

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The unselective knowledge drive resembles the indiscriminate sexual drive--signs of vulgarity!

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Where there is the tree of knowledge, there is always Paradise: so say the most ancient and most modern serpents.

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