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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes about Learning

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Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.

Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Motivational, Learning, Adversity

What I must do is all that concerns me, not what people think. This rule,equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Learning, Greatness, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2017). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.144, Broadview Press

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Encouragement, Good Life, Learning
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2366, Delphi Classics

Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Motivational, Learning, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2667, Delphi Classics

The proof of a high education is the ability to speak about complex matters as simply as possible.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Learning, Matter, Speak

I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Reading, Book, Learning

Let the bird sing without deciphering the song.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Song, Learning, Knowledge

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

Wherever we go, whatever we do, self is the sole subject we study and learn.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Learning, Self, Study
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1910). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson: with annotations”

An orator or author is never successful till he has learned to make his words smaller than his ideas.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Success, Learning, Ideas

Skill to do comes of doing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Educational, Self Esteem, Learning
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.162, Harvard University Press

It is much better to learn the elements of geology, of botany, or ornithology and astronomy by word of mouth from a companion than dully from a book.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Book, Learning, Science
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson (1904). “The complete works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”

In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Learning, Character, Men

When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; he has been put on his wits, on his manhood; he has gained facts; learns his ignorance; is cured of the insanity of conceit; has got moderation and real skill.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Learning, Men, Chance
"Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment they desert the tradition for a spontaneous thought, then poetry, wit, hope, virtue, learning, anecdote, and all flock to their aid.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hope, Learning, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1136, Delphi Classics

He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind, he has descended into the secrets of all minds.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Learning, Secret, Mind
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.20, 谷月社

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Spiritual, Prayer, Learning
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838”, p.182, Harvard University Press

We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Learning, States, Learners
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1954). “The Power of Emerson's Wisdom”

A man should carry nature in his head.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Learning, Science
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.63, University of Georgia Press

Each mind has its own method. A true man never acquires after college rules.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education, Learning, College
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.419, Library of America

A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Learning, Use, Mark
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.107

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education, Learning, School
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.34, North Atlantic Books

This very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are always learning to read it. A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Learning, Eye, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.96, Harvard University Press

Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Learning, Students, Conversation
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.94, University of Georgia Press

Excellence is the new forever.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Teaching, Learning, Forever

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