Quotes about Wisdom
Foolish people ask you, when you speak what they do not wish to hear, How do you know it is the truth, and not an error of your own? We know the truth when we see it, from opinion, as we know when we are awake that we are awake.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every[one] I meet is in some way my superior.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Of that ineffable essence which we call Spirit, he that thinks most, will say least.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some men's words I remember so well that I must often use them to express my thought. Yes, because I perceive that we have heard the same truth, but they have heard it better.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
a good reader makes a good book
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The ancient precept, "Know thyself," and the modern precept, "Study nature," become at last one maxim.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a man is at once acquainted with the geometric foundation of things and with their festal splendor, his poetry is exact and his arithmetic musical.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Each is liable to panic, which is, exactly, the terror of ignorance surrendered to the imagination.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Genius is religious.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Montaigne says, "Books are a languid pleasure," but I find certain books vital and spermatic, not leaving the reader what he was; he shuts the book a richer man. I would never willingly read any other than such.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Spiritual force is stronger than material force; thoughts rule the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson