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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Once and for all, there are many things I choose not to know.--Wisdom sets limits even to knowledge.

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But the best read naturalist who lends an entire and devout attention to truth, will see that there remains much to learn of his relation to the world, and that it is not to be learned by any addition or subtraction or other comparison of known quantities, but is arrived at by untaught sallies of the spirit, by a continual self-recovery, and by entire humility.

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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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You have to know the past to understand the present.

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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

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Truly, only those who see illness as illness can avoid illness.

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Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.

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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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My words are very easy to understand and very easy to practice; but there is no one in the world who is able to understand and practice them.

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Wisdom without love is like having lungs but no air to breathe. Do not seek wisdom in order to acquire knowledge but in order to live and love more fully.

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The right to know is like the right to live. It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption that knowledge, like life, is a desirable thing.

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In vain sedate reflections we would make When half our knowledge we must snatch, not take.

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Courage is the human virtue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have.

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Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.

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The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

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

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It is rightly laid down that 'true knowledge is knowledge by causes'. Also the establishment of four causes is not bad: material, formal, efficient and final.

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The more clever and cunning people are, the stranger the events will be.

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Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

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