Ralph Waldo Emerson ( 10 of 488 )
The secret in education lies in respecting the student.
The secret in education lies in respecting the student.
The human body is a magazine of inventions, the patent office, where are the models from which every hint is read more
The human body is a magazine of inventions, the patent office, where are the models from which every hint is taken. All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of its limbs and senses.
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.
Men lose their tempers in defending their taste.
Men lose their tempers in defending their taste.
My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock, should find the time in my face.
My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock, should find the time in my face.
You cannot see the mountain near
You cannot see the mountain near
Let no one honour me with tears, or bury me with lamentation.
Why? Because I fly hither and thither, read more
Let no one honour me with tears, or bury me with lamentation.
Why? Because I fly hither and thither, living in the mouths of
me.
[Lat., Nemo me lacrymis decoret, nec funera fletu.
Faxit cur? Volito vivu' per ora virum.]
No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.
No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.
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.
Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.
Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.
