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.
Quotes for: eyes
To live without philosophizing is properly to have one's eyes closed and never attempt to open them.
Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.
Philosophy is written in this grand book, which stands continually open before our eyes (I say the Universe), but can not be understood without first learning to comprehend the language and know the characters as it is written. It is written in mathematical language, and its characters are triangles, circles and other geometric figures, without which it is impossible to humanly understand a word; without these one is wandering in a dark labyrinth.
The only true voyage, the only bath in the Fountain of Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to see the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to see the hundred universes that each of them sees, that each of them is.
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