Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Motivational Quotes, Inquiry Quotes

Explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatize or accept another's dogmatism.

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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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The only compensation which war offers for its manifold mischiefs, is in the great personal qualities to which it gives scope and occasion.

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We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

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True friends are two people who are comfortable sharing silence together.

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The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

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Cultivate the habit of being grateful... and ...give thanks continuously.

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People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

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Performing on a stool, we've got a sight to make you drool, seven virgins and a mule, keep it cool, keep it cool.

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Perhaps it is the lowest of the qualities of an orator, but it is, on so many occasions, of chief importance,--a certain robust and radiant physical health; or--shall I say?--great volumes of animal heat.

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Art is a jealous mistress.

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The soul is no traveller; the wise man stays at home, and when his necessities, his duties, on any occasion call him from his house, or into foreign lands, he is at home still, and shall make men sensible by the expression of his countenance, that he goes the missionary of wisdom and virtue, and visits cities and men like a sovereign, and not like an interloper or a valet.

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A man should not be a silkworm; nor a nation a tent of caterpillars.

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I like people who like Plato.

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The wise and just man will always feel that he stands on his own feet; that he imparts strength to the state, not receives security from it; and if all went down, he and such as he would quite easily combine in a new and better constitution.

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How casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances.

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Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will.

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The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius.

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In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their own creed and yours; whilst the charm of the study is in finding the agreements and identities in all the religions of humanity.

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Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

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