Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Knowledge

• Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

• Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Art

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2630, Delphi Classics

• The ancestor of every action is a thought.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Learning, Knowledge, Positive Thinking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.53, Penguin

• To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Beauty, Nature

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Richard Lee Grossman (2005). “A Year with Emerson: A Daybook”, p.107, David R. Godine Publisher

• Knowledge is the antidote to fear

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Tattoo, Spiritual, Wisdom

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.132, Harvard University Press

• The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

• Knowledge is the knowing that we cannot know.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Honesty, Knowledge, Knowing

  "The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

• I shun father and mother and wife and brother when my genius calls me. I would write on the lintels of the door-post, Whim. I hope that it is somewhat better than whim at last, but we cannot spend the day in explanation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mother, Brother, Father

  "Self-Reliance". Essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson, en.wikisource.org. 1847.

• Many times the reading of a book has made the future of a man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wisdom, Time, Future

• Knowledge is the only elegance.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Philosophy, Knowledge

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.146, University of Georgia Press

• But the best read naturalist who lends an entire and devout attention to truth, will see that there remains much to learn of his relation to the world, and that it is not to be learned by any addition or subtraction or other comparison of known quantities, but is arrived at by untaught sallies of the spirit, by a continual self-recovery, and by entire humility.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Knowledge, Humility, Recovery

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2017). “The Best Read Naturalist": Nature Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.130, University of Virginia Press

• Let the bird sing without deciphering the song.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Song, Learning, Knowledge

• Each is liable to panic, which is exactly, the terror of ignorance surrendered to the imagination. Knowledge is the encourager, knowledge that takes fear out of the heart, knowledge and use, which is knowledge in practice. They can conquer who believe they can. It is he who has done the deed once who does not shrink from attempting again.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Believe, Ignorance, Knowledge

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.235

• The chief value of the new fact is to enhance the great and constant fact of life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Knowledge, Facts, Chiefs

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1421, Delphi Classics

• The great man, that is, the man most imbued with the spirit of the time, is the impressionable man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Knowledge, Men, Spirit

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.92, Penguin

• 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.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, School, Knowledge

• You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Knowledge, Roots, Progress

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.419, Library of America

• Knowledge is the antidote to fear,-
  Knowledge, Use and Reason, with its higher aids.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Knowledge, Use, Reason

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.132, Harvard University Press

• Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Knowledge, Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.160

• To make knowledge valuable, you must have the cheerfulness of wisdom.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wisdom, Knowledge, Valuable

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2367, Delphi Classics

• I like to have a person's knowledge comprehend more than one class of topics, one row of shelves. I like a person who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Knowledge, Class, Tragedy

• 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."

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Knowledge, Science, Knows

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1080, Delphi Classics

• The intellect searches out the Absolute order of things as they stand in the mind of God, and without the colors of affection. The intellectual and the active powers seem to succeed each other, and the exclusive activity of the one generates the exclusive activity of the other. There is something unfriendly in each to the other, but they are like the alternate periods of feeding and working in animals; each prepares and will be followed by the other.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Knowledge, Animal, Order

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.39, Penguin

• Our books approach very slowly the things we most wish to know.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Knowledge, Wish

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.197, Graphic Arts Books

• God never jests with us, and will not compromise the end of nature, by permitting any inconsequence in its procession.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Knowledge, Compromise

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.29, Harvard University Press

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