Quotes about Wisdom
No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good as is discourse, silence is better and shames it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men should take their knowledge from the Sun, the Moon and the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Many of the historical proverbs have a doubtful paternity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesman and philosophers and divines.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great men are they who see that the spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson