Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

What could be wiser and to give people who can think the leisure in which to do it.

Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle.

He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.

My education has allowed me to be more open to ideas which I would not have been had I not been as educated.

Our understanding of the world around us is constantly being redefined and expanded, and so therefore, it is wiser to be passionate about seeking for truth than knowing it.

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

My goal is to make the viewer a little bit smarter.

Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

The more you learn, if you learn it properly, the more clear you become and the more you know.

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.

I think every day you try to soak up as much as you can to learn and understand things better.

Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Read in order to live.

Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.

The more I can hear, the more I can learn, the better off I'll be.

Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.

I was very intellectually oriented, very early on.

Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life.

To know the rules of the game, you have to be educated.

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.