Quotes by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, >>

Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, an >>

Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one o >>

Quotations about Scholars and Scholarship

People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: >>

I am not able to instruct you. I can only tell that I have chosen wron >>

People who use their erudition to write for a learned minority... don' >>

The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances. He plies the slow, unhonored, and unpaid task of observation. He is the world's eye.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo