Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Book Quotes, Learning Quotes

It is much better to learn the elements of geology, of botany, or ornithology and astronomy by word of mouth from a companion than dully from a book.

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Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

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Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth.

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The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.

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Knowledge is the knowing that we cannot know.

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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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Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

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Conversation in society is found to be on a platform so low as to exclude science, the saint, and the poet.

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Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet

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A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life.

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We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry and lifeless science, or sink into that of sensation. Between these extremes is the equator of life, of thought, or spirit, or poetry,--a narrow belt.

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It is frivolous to fix pedantically the date of particular inventions. They have all been invented over and over fifty times. Man is the arch machine, of which all these shifts drawn from himself are toy models. He helps himself on each emergency by copying or duplicating his own structure, just so far as then need is.

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The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral.

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The case wouldn't be overweight if you didn't have so many shoes. How many do you really need? This pair, for example, I swear you never even wore them.

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I think no virtue goes with size.

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The squirrel hoards nuts and the bee gathers honey, without knowing what they do, and they are thus provided for without selfishness or disgrace.

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Pride ruined the angels.

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Life is in short cycles or periods; we are quickly tired, but we have rapid rallies. A man is spent by his work, starved, prostrate; he will not lift his hand to save his life; he can never think more. He sinks into deep sleep and wakes with renewed youth, with hope, courage, fertile in resources, and keen for daring adventure.

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For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

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We know more from nature than we can at will communicate.

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