Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Unless you try to do something beyond wh…
Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Ralph Waldo Emerson
We aim above the mark to hit the mark….
We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are born believing. A man bears belie…
We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears beauty.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are shut up in schools and college re…
We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Ralph Waldo Emerson
We do what we must, and call it by the b…
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Ralph Waldo Emerson
We do not quite forgive a giver. The han…
We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Ralph Waldo Emerson
We find delight in the beauty and happin…
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Ralph Waldo Emerson
We know better than we do. We do not yet…
We know better than we do. We do not yet possess ourselves.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Ralph Waldo Emerson
What I must do is all that concerns me. …
What I must do is all that concerns me. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is harder because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Ralph Waldo Emerson