"Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.












Self-command is the main elegance.
More Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes
"Discontent is want of self-discipline it is infirmity of will.
"Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing. Gowns, and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold, can neve...
"Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.
"It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much but I am my own comedy and tragedy.
"Accept the place the divine providence has found for you.
"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...
"A world in the hand is worth two in the bush.
"A mind might ponder its thought for ages, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach it in a day.
"Why covet a knowledge of new facts? Day and night, house and garden, a few books, a few actions, serve us as well as would all trades and all spectacl...