Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Training

• An orator or author is never successful till he has learned to make his words smaller than his ideas.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Learning, Ideas

• For a great nature, it is a happiness to escape a religious training; religion of character is so apt to be invaded.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Religious, Character, Personality

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.399

• We teach boys to be such men as we are. We do not teach them to aspire to be all they can. We do not give them a training as if webelieved in their noble nature. We scarce educate their bodies. We do not train the eye and the hand. We exercise their understandings to the apprehension and comparison of some facts, to a skill in numbers, in words; we aim to make accountants, attorneys, engineers; but not to make able, earnest, great- hearted men.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Eye, Exercise

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2741, Delphi Classics

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