Quotes About Understanding

There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant

Tis the good reader that makes the good book.

We are wiser than we know.

Nature and books belong to all who see them.

Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear.

Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.

Words are finite organs of the infinite mind.

It is a luxury to be understood.

To the illuminated mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.

All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.

Go forth into the busy world and love it. Interest yourself in its life, mingle kindly with its joys and sorrows.

The man who knows how will always have a job. The man who knows why will always be his boss.

Never read a book that is not a year old.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

She shows us only surfaces but Nature is a million fathoms deep.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means to an education.

That which we are, we shall teach, not voluntarily, but involuntarily. Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts go out of our minds through avenues which we never voluntarily opened.

Keep your friendships in repair.

He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind, he has descended into the secrets of all minds.

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate. What Plato has thought, he may think; what a saint has felt, he may feel; what at any time has befallen any man, he can understand. Who hath access to this universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done, for this is the only and sovereign agent.