Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Ignorance Quotes, Knowledge Quotes

It is a mischievous notion that we are come late into nature; that the world was finished a long time ago. As the world was plastic and fluid in the hands of God, so it is ever to so much of his attributes as we bring to it. To ignorance and sin, it is flint. They adapt to themselves to it as they may; but in proportion as a man has anything in him divine, the firmament flows before him and takes his signet and form.

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Philosophy stands in need of a science which shall determine the possibility, principles, and extent of human knowledge à priori.

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

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It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery or a large bequest to a poor family, does not permanently enrich. They have served no apprenticeship to wealth, and with the rapid wealth come rapid claims which they do not know how to deny, and the treasure is quickly dissipated.

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I don't know nothing, I think. And glad of it.

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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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Nobody can give us what we really already are. Wouldn't it be terrible if somebody could give you what you really are? ...'cause if they could give it to you, they could take it away.

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I don't know nothing, I think. And glad of it.

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Do you realize we've got 250 million years of coal? But coal has got environmental hazards to it, but there's-I'm convinced, and I know that we-technology can be developed so we can have zero-emissions coal-fired electricity plants.

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That virtue only makes our bliss below, And all our knowledge is ourselves to know.

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The essential form of knowledge... is nothing but a representation of truth: for the truth of being and the truth of knowing are one, differing no more than the direct beam and the beam reflected.

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All things are known to the soul.

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Even great spirits have only their five-fingers' breadth of experience - just beyond it their thinking ceases and their endless empty space and stupidity begins.

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Activity is the only road to knowledge.

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My praise shall be dedicated to the mind itself. The mind is the man, and the knowledge is the mind. A man is but what he knoweth. The mind is but an accident to knowledge, for knowledge is the double of that which is.

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Who loves not Knowledge? Who shall rail Against her beauty? May she mix With men and prosper! Who shall fix Her pillars? Let her work prevail.

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A fact is the end or last issue of spirit. The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisible world.

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One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.

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Doubt is not below knowledge, but above it.

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He who repeats what he does not understand is no better than an ass that is loaded with books.

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