Quotes of: Ralph-waldo-emerson Keyword

Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.

Immanuel Kant

Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.

John Ciardi

There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.

John Fowles

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

James Russell Lowell

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.

Lewis Carroll

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

Salvador Dali

Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Simone Weil

Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Auguste Comte

We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same.

Arthur Erickson

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Aldous Huxley

You want an audience. If you didn't, you wouldn't be a writer. The biggest motivation to write is the knowledge that someone will read it.

Andy Weir

At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.

Charles Babbage

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

Carlos Castaneda

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

Confucius

Deficits. Most people of knowledge say it's the biggest single problem facing the economic free world.

David Hartman

What a gift it would be to receive at Christmastime a greater knowledge of the Lord. What a gift it would be to share that knowledge with others.

Ezra Taft Benson

We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.

Eric Hoffer

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

Francis Bacon

There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak; they are manners, morals, and medicine.

Gerald F. Lieberman

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

George Bernard Shaw

Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them.

Huston Smith