Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Learning
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I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.
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Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries, when they wrote these books.
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The things taught in schools & colleges are not an education but the means of education.
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The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.
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No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
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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.
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Throughout the ages there have always been those who have been willing to go beyond the norms and reach for that unknown and distant star.
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Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student.
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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.
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The secret in education lies in respecting the student.
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The man (or woman) who can make hard things easy is the educator.
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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.
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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.
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An orator or author is never successful till he has learned to make his words smaller than his ideas.
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I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship.
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He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind, he has descended into the secrets of all minds.
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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.
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The ancestor of every action is a thought.
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Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.
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I hear therefore with joy whatever is beginning to be said of the dignity and necessity of labor to every citizen. There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade, for learned as well as for unlearned hands. And labor is everywhere welcome; always we are invited to work; only be this limitation observed, that a man shall not for the sake of wider activity sacrifice any opinion to the popular judgments and modes of action.
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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.
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Each mind has its own method. A true man never acquires after college rules.
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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
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The book written against fame and learning has the author's name on the title-page.
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Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.
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Knowledge exists to be imparted.
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Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
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Wherever we go, whatever we do, self is the sole subject we study and learn.
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Skill to do comes of doing.
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The proof of a high education is the ability to speak about complex matters as simply as possible.
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