American Scholar Quotes - Page 2

• The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action passed, by, as a loss of power.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Loss, Opportunity, Action

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1106, Delphi Classics

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• The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters,—a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Necks, Monsters

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.175

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• The preamble of thought, the transition through which it passes from the unconscious to the conscious, is action. Only so much do I know, as I have lived. Instantly we know whose words are loaded with life, and whose not.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Transition, Action, Conscious

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.496

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• The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class - it is the cause of humankind, the very birthright of humanity.

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Inspiring, Freedom, Party

  Anna Julia Cooper, Charles C. Lemert, Esme Bhan (1998). “The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters”, p.106, Rowman & Littlefield

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• I feel now, that Arabia could easily be evangelized within the next thirty years if it were not for the wicked selfishness of Christians.

  Samuel Marinus Zwemer

  Christian, Religious, Years

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• Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Future, Giving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1113, Delphi Classics

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• Of all the many memoirs by former Soviet officials, Palazchenko's is among the best written and also the most objective. Even his descriptions of U.S. policy are more accurate and judicious than those of some American scholars.

  Jack F. Matlock, Jr.

  Description, Scholar, Memoir

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