Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tremendis Learning found 15 quote/s on its database for Ralph Waldo Emerson.
   
1."Skill to do comes of doing."
  
2."Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss."
  
3."There is a time in every mans education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion . . . 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 worlds 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."
  
4."If the colleges were better, if they really had it, you would need to get the police at the gates to keep order in the inrushing multitude. See in college how we thwart the natural love of learning by leaving the natural method of teaching what each wishes to learn, and insisting that you shall learn what you have no taste or capacity for. The college, which should be a place of delightful labour, is made odious and unhealthy, and the young men are tempted to frivolous amusements to rally their jaded spirits. I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor."
  
5."The man who can make hard things easy is the educator."
  
6."Life is a succession of lessons, which must be lived to be understood."
  
7."The education of the will is the object of our existence."
  
8."Every man is an impossibility until he is born."
  
9."Beware when God lets loose a thinker on this planet."
  
10."Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories."
  
11."Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."
  
12."Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is the triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it."
  
13."Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
  
14."What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
  
15."The world makes way for a man who knows where he is going."