Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes about Knowledge

Let the bird sing without deciphering the song.

Let the bird sing without deciphering the song.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Song, Learning, Knowledge

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art, Philosophy, Knowledge

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.146, University of Georgia Press

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Learning, Knowledge, Positive Thinking

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.53, Penguin

Knowledge is the antidote to fear,- Knowledge, Use and Reason, with its higher aids.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Knowledge, Use, Reason

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.132, Harvard University Press

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Knowledge, Mind

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.160

God never jests with us, and will not compromise the end of nature, by permitting any inconsequence in its procession.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

God, Knowledge, Compromise

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.29, Harvard University Press

To make knowledge valuable, you must have the cheerfulness of wisdom.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wisdom, Knowledge, Valuable

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2367, Delphi Classics

Each is liable to panic, which is exactly, the terror of ignorance surrendered to the imagination. Knowledge is the encourager, knowledge that takes fear out of the heart, knowledge and use, which is knowledge in practice. They can conquer who believe they can. It is he who has done the deed once who does not shrink from attempting again.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Believe, Ignorance, Knowledge

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.235

The thief steals from himself. The swindler swindles himself. For the real price is knowledge and virtue, whereof wealth and credit are signs. These signs, like paper money, may be counterfeited or stolen, but that which they represent, namely, knowledge and virtue, cannot be counterfeited or stolen.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Real, Knowledge, Thieves

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.144, Penguin

We know more from nature than we can at will communicate.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature, Knowledge, Communicate

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1849). “Nature”, p.29

Men are not philosophers, but are rather very foolish children, who, by reason of their partiality, see everything in the most absurd manner, and are the victims at all times of the nearest object. There is even no philosopher who is a philosopher at all times. Our experience, our perception is conditioned by the need to acquire in parts and in succession, that is, with every truth a certain falsehood.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Children, Philosophy, Knowledge

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.164, Рипол Классик

Knowledge is the knowing that we cannot know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Honesty, Knowledge, Knowing

"The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

The chief value of the new fact is to enhance the great and constant fact of life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Knowledge, Facts, Chiefs

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1421, Delphi Classics

We are impressed and even daunted by the immense Universe to be explored. "What we know is a point to what we do not know."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Knowledge, Science, Knows

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1080, Delphi Classics

Our books approach very slowly the things we most wish to know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Book, Knowledge, Wish

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.197, Graphic Arts Books

Of lower states, of acts of routine and sense, we can tell somewhat; but the masterpieces of God, the total growths and universalmovements of the soul, he hideth; they are incalculable. I can know that truth is divine and helpful; but how it shall help me I can have no guess, for so to be is the sole inlet of so to know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Knowledge, Soul, Growth

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1391, Delphi Classics

All I know is reception; I am and I have: but I do not get, and when I fancied I had gotten anything, I found I did not.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Knowledge, Found, Reception

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.491, Library of America

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads, just one year afterwards.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Knowledge, Years, Nobody Knows

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.106, University of Georgia Press

Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wisdom, Knowledge, Suffering

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.17, 谷月社

I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wise, School, Knowledge

I like to have a person's knowledge comprehend more than one class of topics, one row of shelves. I like a person who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Knowledge, Class, Tragedy

But the best read naturalist who lends an entire and devout attention to truth, will see that there remains much to learn of his relation to the world, and that it is not to be learned by any addition or subtraction or other comparison of known quantities, but is arrived at by untaught sallies of the spirit, by a continual self-recovery, and by entire humility.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Knowledge, Humility, Recovery

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2017). “The Best Read Naturalist": Nature Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.130, University of Virginia Press

Yet things are knowable! They are knowable, because, being from one, things correspond. There is a scale: and the correspondence of heaven to earth, of matter to mind, of the part to the whole, is our guide. As there is a science of stars, called astronomy; and science of quantities, called mathematics; a science of qualities, called chemistry; so there is a science of sciences,--I call it Dialectic,--which is the Intellect discriminating the false and the true.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Stars, Knowledge, Heaven

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.534, Modern Library

And, in fine, the ancient precept, "Know thyself," and the modern precept, "Study nature," become at last one maxim.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Knowledge, Science, Self

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Nature: Addresses, and Lectures”, p.83

The intellect searches out the Absolute order of things as they stand in the mind of God, and without the colors of affection. The intellectual and the active powers seem to succeed each other, and the exclusive activity of the one generates the exclusive activity of the other. There is something unfriendly in each to the other, but they are like the alternate periods of feeding and working in animals; each prepares and will be followed by the other.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Knowledge, Animal, Order

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.39, Penguin

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes about Knowledge

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