Ralph Waldo Emerson ( 10 of 488 )
The secret in education lies in respecting the student.
The secret in education lies in respecting the student.
America is another name for opportunity.
America is another name for opportunity.
We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, read more
We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.
There is no knowledge that is not power
There is no knowledge that is not power
We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.
We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.
To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for read more
To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men--that is genius.
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. . . .
Speak what you think to-day in read more
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. . . .
Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon balls, and
to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though
it contradict everything you said to-day.
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.
No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.
