Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Book Quotes, Knowledge Quotes

Our books approach very slowly the things we most wish to know.

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Some men covet knowledge out of a natural curiosity and inquisitive temper; some to entertain the mind with variety and delight; some for ornament and reputation; some for victory and contention; many for lucre and a livelihood; and but few for employing the Divine gift of reason to the use and benefit of mankind.

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In the medical profession a horse and carriage are more necessary than any scientific knowledge.

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Knowledge without devotion will be like a misfire.

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Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

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

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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

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The more refined one is, the more unhappy.

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There is nothing higher than reason.

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That was the birth of sin. Not doing it, but KNOWING about it. Before the apple, [Adam and Eve] had shut their eyes and their minds had gone dark. Now, they peeped and pried and imagined. They watched themselves.

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Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.

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When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.

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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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Knowledge leads to unity, but ignorance to diversity.

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If we don't understand phenomena, we are more likely to do things to harm ourselves and others.

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When ignorant people see someone who is dead, they are disgusted and horrified, even thought they too will be dead some day. I thought to myself: I don't want to be like the ignorant people. After then, I couldn't feel the usual intoxication with life anymore.

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Ignorance is death, Knowledge is life.

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If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.

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The more clever and cunning people are, the stranger the events will be.

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Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

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