Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes on Knowledge
Ralph Waldo Emerson was a 19th-century American essayist, lecturer, and poet, the leading figure of the Transcendentalist movement in New England. This page collects quotes attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson on the topic of knowledge, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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“What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.”
Fortune of the Republic (1878) -
Attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson:
“Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.”
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“All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”
November 11, 1842 -
“He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.”
The Method of Nature (1841), p. 25 -
“I fancy I need more than another to speak (rather than write), with such a formidable tendency to the lapidary style. I build my house of boulders.”
Letter to Thomas Carlyle (30 October 1841) -
“Letter to Thomas Carlyle (30 October 1841)”
I fancy I need more than another to speak (rather than write), with such a formidable tendency to the lapidary style. I build my house of boulders. -
“Walter Savage Landor ", from The Dial , xii (1841)”
Yet a man may love a paradox, without losing either his wit or his honesty. -
“Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.”
Walter Savage Landor", from The Dial , xii (1841) -
“Walter Savage Landor", from The Dial , xii (1841)”
Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.