Quotes by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

We know better than we do. We do not yet possess ourselves... >>

Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because >>

Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting. >>

Quotations about Wisdom

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper us >>

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult. >>

Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare >>

Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo