Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, God Quotes, Knowledge Quotes

God never jests with us, and will not compromise the end of nature, by permitting any inconsequence in its procession.

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

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

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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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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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There is nothing higher than reason.

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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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A knowledge of mankind and of things that surround us gives us that second education which proves far move valuable than our first because it alone turns out a truly accomplished man.

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It is not enough to know what is good: you must be able to do it.

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The mind can proceed only so far upon what it knows and can prove. There comes a point where the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge, but can never prove how it got there. All great discoveries have involved such a leap

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If you give me rice, I'll eat today; if you teach me how to grow rice, I'll eat every day.

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To realize that our knowledge is ignorance, This is a noble insight. To regard our ignorance as knowledge, This is mental sickness. Only when we are sick of the sickness Shall we cease to be sick. The Sage is not sick, being sick of sickness; This is the secret of health.

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Partial knowledge is more triumphant than complete knowledge; it takes things to be simpler than they are, and so makes its theory more popular and convincing.

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Information appears to stew out of me naturally, like the precious otter of roses out of the otter.

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

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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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Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn.

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Abandon knowledge and your worries are over.

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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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