Quote of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Skill to do comes of doing...
Biography - Ralph Waldo Emerson:
American essayist, lecturer and poet.
Born: 1803 - Died: 1882
Period:
19th century
Place of birth: United States
Born: 1803 - Died: 1882
Period:
19th century
Place of birth: United States
Skill to do comes of doing; knowledge comes by eyes always open, and working hands; and there is no knowledge that is not power.
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Quotes about power:
Where love rules, there is no will to power and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.
The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
Quotes for: knowledge
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Ralph Waldo Emerson also said...
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