Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Learning Quotes, Men Quotes

When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; he has been put on his wits, on his manhood; he has gained facts; learns his ignorance; is cured of the insanity of conceit; has got moderation and real skill.

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Any noun can be verbed.

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To begin with the wine jar in learning the potter's art.

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The really faithful lover of learning holds fast to the Good Way till death.

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Never hesitate to ask a lesser person.

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The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always list'ning to himself appears. All books he reads, and all he reads assails.

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The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.

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We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.

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Learning is a plant that grows in all climes.

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But the great Master said, "I see No best in kind, but in degree; I gave a various gift to each, To charm, to strengthen, and to teach".

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The final mystery is oneself.

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There were no object lessons, and the studies of bookkeeping and French were pursued (but never effectually overtaken.

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A young man is not a proper hearer of lectures on political science; for he is inexperienced in the actions that occur in life, but its discussions start from these and are about these; and, further, since he tends to follow his passions, his study will be vain and unprofitable, because the end that is aimed at is not knowledge but action. And it makes no difference whether he is young in years or youthful in character.

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Learning teaches how to carry things in suspense, without prejudice, till you resolve it.

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Each mind has its own method. A true man never acquires after college rules.

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Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.

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In the pursuit of learning, every day something is acquired. In the pursuit of Tao, every day something is dropped.

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Learning -the kind of ignorance affected by (and affecting) civilized races, as distinguished from ignorance, the sort of learning incurred by savages. See nonsense.

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PHILISTINE, n. One whose mind is the creature of its environment, following the fashion in thought, feeling and sentiment. He is sometimes learned, frequently prosperous, commonly clean and always solemn.

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The master said, 'Quietly to store up knowledge in my mind, to learn without flagging, to teach without growing weary, these present me with no difficulties.'

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