Quotes by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. >>

Let us be silent that we may hear the whispers of the gods. >>

Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load >>

Quotations about Scholars and Scholarship

I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of wri >>

Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorou >>

The professors laugh at themselves, they laugh at life; they long ago >>

I cannot forgive a scholar his homeless despondency.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo