Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Knowledge Quotes, Differences Quotes

In my utter impotence to test the authenticity of the report of my senses, to know whether the impressions they make on me correspond with outlying objects, what difference does it make, whether Orion is up there in heaven, or some god paints the image in the firmament of the soul?

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All I know is reception; I am and I have: but I do not get, and when I fancied I had gotten anything, I found I did not.

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Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.

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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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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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There is nothing higher than reason.

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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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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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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

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We are impressed and even daunted by the immense Universe to be explored. "What we know is a point to what we do not know."

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Not knowing of the eternal leads to unfortunate errors.

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To each individual the world will take on a different connotation of meaning-the important lies in the desire to search for an answer.

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There are men who teach best by not teaching at all.

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

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The trouble with the media is that it seems unable to distinguish between the end of the world and a bicycle accident.

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I like to have a person's knowledge comprehend more than one class of topics, one row of shelves. I like a person who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy.

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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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To know how little one knows is to have genuine knowledge. Not to know how little one knows is to be deluded. Only those who know when they are deluded can free themselves from such delusion. The intelligent people are not deluded, because they know and accept their ignorance as ignorance, and thereby have genuine knowledge.

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Activity is the only road to knowledge.

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The science [geometry] is pursued for the sake of the knowledge of what eternally exists, and not of what comes for a moment into existence, and then perishes.

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