Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Wisdom Quotes, Knowledge Quotes

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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Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance, what Buddha called 'the greatest evil in the world.' The friction which results from ignorance ... can be reduced only by the spread of knowledge and the unification of the heterogeneous elements of humanity. No effort could be better spent.

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There's not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else's brains.

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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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For the purpose of knowledge we must know how to make use of the inward current which draws us towards a thing, and also of the current which after a time draws us away from it.

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Where there is no knowledge ignorance calls itself science.

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The more I know the less tortured I am.

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

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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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The great man, that is, the man most imbued with the spirit of the time, is the impressionable man.

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No one has yet been found so firm of mind and purpose as resolutely to compel himself to sweep away all theories and common notions, and to apply the understanding, thus made fair and even, to a fresh examination of particulars. Thus it happens that human knowledge, as we have it, is a mere medley and ill-digested mass, made up of much credulity and much accident, and also of the childish notions which we at first imbibed.

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The charm of knowledge would be small indeed, were it not that there is so much shame to be overcome on the way to it.

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Those who seek knowledge, collect something every day. Those who seek the Way, let go of something every day.

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Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be sin to know, Can it be death? And do they only stand By ignorance? Is that their happy state, The proof of their obedience and their faith? O fair foundation laid whereon to build Their ruin!

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Those who know are not learned. Those who are learned do not know.

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The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.

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Those who are right do not argue. Those who argue are not right.

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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?

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Understanding others is knowledge, Understanding oneself is enlightenment; Conquering others is power, Conquering oneself is strength.

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We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

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