Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Morning Quotes, Knowledge Quotes

The difference between the actual and the ideal force of man is happily figured in by the schoolmen, in saying, that the knowledgeof man is an evening knowledge, vespertina cognitio, but that of God is a morning knowledge, matutina cognitio.

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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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Faith is a fine invention When gentlemen can see, But microscopes are prudent In an emergency.

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From whatever you wish to know and measure you must take your leave, at least for a time. Only when you have left the town can yousee how high its towers rise above the houses.

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True words are not pleasing. Pleasing words are not true.

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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?

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There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.

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The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

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He who speaks a bit of a foreign language has more delight in it than he who speaks it well; pleasure goes along with superficial knowledge.

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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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Whereas young people become accomplished in geometry and mathematics, and wise within these limits, prudent young people do not seem to be found. The reason is that prudence is concerned with particulars as well as universals, and particulars become known from experience, but a young person lacks experience, since some length of time is needed to produce it.

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Crowns have their compass-length of days their date- Triumphs their tomb-felicity, her fate- Of nought but earth can earth make us partaker, But knowledge makes a king most like his Maker.

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But this is that which will dignify and exalt knowledge: if contemplation and action be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united together than they have been: a conjunction like unto that of the highest planets, Saturn, the planet of rest and contemplation, and Jupiter, the planet of civil society and action.

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There is no doctrine of the Reason which will bear to be taught by the Understanding.

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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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I long to create something that can't be used to keep us passive: I want to write a script about plumbing, how every pipe is joined to every other.

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Knowledge is not happiness, and science But an exchange of ignorance for that Which is another kind of ignorance.

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Without love the acquisition of knowledge only increases confusion and leads to self-destruction.

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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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Never any knowledge was delivered in the same order it was invented.

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