Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

If God continues to give me health and a sane mind and verbal ability, I want to teach.

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

I'm hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter. That's what this world is about. You look at someone like Gandhi, and he glowed. Martin Luther King glowed. Muhammad Ali glows. I think that's from being bright all the time, and trying to be brighter.

Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings.

Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.

Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.

No enemy is more harmful than ignorance.

What we find in books is like the fire in our hearths. We fetch it from our neighbors, we kindle it at home, we communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

Libraries are the torch of the world, illuminating the path when it feels too dark to see. We mustn't allow that torch to be extinguished.

Genius is a light which makes the darkness visible, like the lightning's flash, which perchance shatters the temple of knowledge itself.

Alexander the Great valued learning so highly, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge than to his father Philip for life.

The light in the world comes principally from two sources,-the sun, and the student's lamp.

The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created.

Even the facts of science may dust the mind by their dryness, unless they are ... rendered fertile by the dews of fresh and living truth. Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

To learn to read is to light a fire.

Beauty and the lust for learning have yet to be allied.

The best of all things is to learn. Money can be lost or stolen, health and strength may fail, but what you have committed to your mind is yours forever.

I'm learning all the time." "Well, you're a scholar.

The essence of Vanderbilt is still learning, the essence of its outlook is still liberty, and liberty and learning will be and must be the touchstones of Vanderbilt University and of any free university in this country or the world. I say two touchstones, yet they are almost inseparable, inseparable if not indistinguishable, for liberty without learning is always in peril, and learning without liberty is always in vain.

I read constantly because there is so much to learn from the writing in the world.

Scholars are wont to sell their birthright for a mess of learning.

Yes, instruction! Light! Light! Everything comes from light, and to everything it returns.

People's lives, meaningful lives derive from desire, from passion, from education, from knowledge, from growing up being inspired by people and believing that you can do things and that you should want to do things. And people encouraging you to try to do things.

In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy men. The true division of humanity is between those who live in light and those who live in darkness. Our aim must be to diminish the number of the latter and increase the number of the former. That is why we demand education and knowledge.