Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Beauty Quotes, Knowledge Quotes

Go out of the house to see the moon, and 't is mere tinsel; it will not please as when its light shines upon your necessary journey. The beauty that shimmers in the yellow afternoons of October, who could ever clutch it? Go forth to find it, and it is gone: 't is only a mirage as you look from the windows of diligence.

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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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If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the solution, I would spend the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask, for once I know the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than five minutes.

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It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.

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Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed; and that which in contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule.

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The teachers of our law, and to propose What might improve my knowledge or their own.

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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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Knowledge is the antidote to fear,- Knowledge, Use and Reason, with its higher aids.

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Wonder... and not any expectation of advantage from its discoveries, is the first principle which prompts mankind to the study of Philosophy, of that science which pretends to lay open the concealed connections that unite the various appearances of nature.

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Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom.

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A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

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There are men who teach best by not teaching at all.

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If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular thing, and every thing, and every man.

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

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And what word is knowledge but a shadow of wordless knowledge?

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Too much to know is to know naught but fame.

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Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

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God never jests with us, and will not compromise the end of nature, by permitting any inconsequence in its procession.

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He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

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There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

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