Learning Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

#1. Excellence is the new forever.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. The lioness giveth birth to cubs which remain three days without life. Then cometh the lion, breatheth upon them, and bringeth them to life.

Bill Vaughan

#3. Let the bird sing without deciphering the song.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#4. A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#5. Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst ... They are for nothing but to inspire.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6. Nobody, I believe, will deny, that we are to form our judgment of the true nature of the human mind, not from sloth and stupidity of the most degenerate and vilest of men, but from the sentiments and fervent desires of the best and wisest of the species.

Robert B. Leighton

#7. Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#8. Is not prayer a study of truth, a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#9. Throughout the ages there have always been those who have been willing to go beyond the norms and reach for that unknown and distant star.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10. We, as we read, must become Greeks, Romans, Turks, priest and king, martyr and executioner; must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience, or we shall learn nothing rightly.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#11. Either I am just what God intended me for, or God cannot 'carry out' His intentions, it would seem.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

#12. Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#13. The secret in education lies in respecting the student.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#14. Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment they desert the tradition for a spontaneous thought, then poetry, wit, hope, virtue, learning, anecdote, and all flock to their aid.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#15. The book written against fame and learning has the author's name on the title-page.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#16. The man (or woman) who can make hard things easy is the educator.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#17. I don't like Heather Graham. She did an interview and said, 'I didn't want to kiss Corey; I didn't want to catch his mononucleosis. He had a kissing disease.'

Corey Haim

#18. Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return.

Colin Powell

#19. I never made a mistake in my life. I thought I did once, but I was wrong.

Charles M. Schulz

#20. The proof of a high education is the ability to speak about complex matters as simply as possible.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#21. Each mind has its own method. A true man never acquires after college rules.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#22. Nothing is stronger than Custom
(Fac tibi consuescat: nil adsuetudine maius)

Ovid

#23. This very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are always learning to read it. A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#24. Having had cancer, one important thing to know is you're still the same person at the end. You're stripped down to near zero. But most people come out the other end feeling more like themselves than ever before.

Kylie Minogue

#25. Teach your parents well.

Sidney Crosby

#26. That which we are, we shall teach, not voluntarily, but involuntarily. Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts go out of our minds through avenues which we never voluntarily opened.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#27. A person who always fights back with an enemy is not strong; a person who shows kindness to an enemy is strong.

Debasish Mridha

#28. The years teach us much, which the days never knew.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#29. Knowledge exists to be imparted.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#30. Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. The millions, that around us arerushing into life, cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#31. If the issue is letting the states experiment and letting the society have more time to figure out its direction, why is taking a case now the answer?

Sonia Sotomayor

#32. Wherever we go, whatever we do, self is the sole subject we study and learn.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#33. There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#34. The fairy tale emanates from specific struggles to humanize bestial and barbaric forces, which have terrorized our minds and communities in concrete ways, threatening to destroy free will and human compassion. The fairy tale sets out to conquer this concrete terror through metaphors.

Jack D. Zipes

#35. A world in the hand is worth two in the bush.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#36. I enjoy working with complicated equipment. A lot of my things started just with a rhythm box, but I feed it through so many things that what comes out sounds very complex and rich.

Brian Eno

#37. A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own.

Ralph Waldo Emerson