Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Learning Quotes, Eye Quotes

This very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are always learning to read it. A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.

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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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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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You think you KNOW when you learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.

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All that's different about me is that I still ask the questions most people stopped asking at age five.

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Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile.

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Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.

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Learning hath his infancy, when it is but beginning and almost childish; then his youth, when it is luxuriant and juvenile; then his strength of years, when it is solid and reduced; and lastly his old age, when it waxeth dry and exhaust.

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The unpleasant events you are passing from will not have been profitless to you.

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Old men are always young enough to learn with profit.

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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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Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.

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Wearing all that weight Of learning lightly like a flower.

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The ancestor of every action is a thought.

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The faculty for remembering is not diminished in proportion to what one has learnt, just as little as the number of moulds in which you cast sand lessens its capacity for being cast in new moulds.

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. . . learn to value what is important today in the subtle realm rather than what appears desirable tomorrow in the worldly realm.

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Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind.

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There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know.

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It is always in season for old men to learn.

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Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to riches.

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