Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Wisdom Quotes, Knowledge Quotes

Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom.

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We know enough to be sure that the scientific achievements of the next fifty years will be far greater, more rapid, and more surprising, than those we have already experienced. ... Wireless telephones and television, following naturally upon the their present path of development, would enable their owner to connect up to any room similarly equipped and hear and take part in the conversation as well as if he put his head in through the window.

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He that cometh to seek after knowledge, with a mind to scorn, shall be sure to find matter for his humour, but no matter for his instruction.

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

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Go out of the house to see the moon, and 't is mere tinsel; it will not please as when its light shines upon your necessary journey. The beauty that shimmers in the yellow afternoons of October, who could ever clutch it? Go forth to find it, and it is gone: 't is only a mirage as you look from the windows of diligence.

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True knowledge is not attained by thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become.

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We can say of Shakespeare, that never has a man turned so little knowledge to such great account.

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As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

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If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular thing, and every thing, and every man.

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Knowledge comes Of learning well retain'd, unfruitful else.

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Error has made man so deep, sensitive, and inventive that he has put forth such blossoms as religions and arts. Pure knowledge could not have been capable of it.

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Today a man of knowledge might well feel as though he were God transformed into an animal.

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

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The more I know the less tortured I am.

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

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The drive toward knowledge has a moral origin.

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What you know, you know, what you don't know, you don't know. This is true wisdom.

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You have to know the past to understand the present.

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We can say of Shakespeare, that never has a man turned so little knowledge to such great account.

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