Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Wise Quotes, Stars Quotes

I am old, yet I look at wise men and see that I am very young. I look over those stars yonder, and into the myriads of the aspirant and ordered souls, and see I am a stranger and a youth and have yet my spurs to win. Too ridiculous are these airs of age.

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A fool who recognises his own ignorance is thereby in fact a wise man, but a fool who considers himself wise - that is what one really calls a fool.

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Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.

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At first he who invented any art that went beyond the common perceptions of man was naturally admired by men, not only because there was something useful in the inventions, but because he was thought wise and superior to the rest. But as more arts were invented, and some were directed to the necessities of life, others to its recreation, the inventors of the latter were always regarded as wiser than the inventors of the former, because their branches of knowledge did not aim at utility.

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The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.

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To fear death, gentlemen, is no other then to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.

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To get to know a country, you must have direct contact with the earth. It's futile to gaze at the world through a car window.

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Music has the capacity to touch the innermost reaches of the soul and music gives flight to the imagination.

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Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

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Though through all his life a fool associates with a wise man, he yet understands not the Dharma, as the spoon, the flavor of soup.

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Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

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So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

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We shall not fail - if we stand firm, we shall not fail. Wise counsels may accelerate, or mistakes delay it, but, sooner or later, the victory is sure to come.

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The wise man knows of all things, as far as possible, although he has no knowledge of each of them in detail

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The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

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I love tranquil solitude, And such society As is quiet, wise, and good; Between thee and me What difference? but thou dost possess The things I seek, not love them less.

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When people show you who they are ... believe them!

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I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

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No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge. The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple, among his followers, gives not of his wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness. If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind.

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Things that are done, it is needless to speak about...things that are past, it is needless to blame.

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