Quotes by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

We live by our imagination, our admiration s, and our sentiments. >>

All the great speakers were bad speaker at first. >>

Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, >>

Quotations about Knowledge

It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an al >>

No man knows less than the man who knows it all >>

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but becaus >>

I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo