Quote of Ralph Waldo Emerson - The scholar is that man who...

Biography - Ralph Waldo Emerson:

American essayist, lecturer and poet.
Born: 1803 - Died: 1882
Period:
19th century
Place of birth: United States

The scholar is that man who must take up into himself all the ability of the time, all the contributions of the past, all the hopes of the future.

Ralph Waldo Emerson - The American Scholar

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"The scholar is that man who must take up into himself all the ability of the time, all the contributions of the past, all the hopes of the future. He must be an university of knowledges. If there be one lesson more than another, which should pierce his ear, it is, The world is nothing, the man is all; in yourself is the law of all nature, and you know not yet how a globule of sap ascends; in yourself slumbers the whole of Reason; it is for you to know all, it is for you to dare all."

Source: The American Scholar

Wikisource - Emerson -The American Scholar (en)

Translation

(French, German)

L'intellectuel est cet homme qui doit absorber toutes les aptitudes de son époque, toutes les contributions du passé, tous les espoirs de l'avenir.

Ralph Waldo Emerson - L’intellectuel américain

Der Gelehrte ist der Mann, der in sich alle Fähigkeiten der Zeit, alle Beiträge der Vergangenheit, alle Hoffnungen der Zukunft aufnehmen muss.

Ralph Waldo Emerson - The American Scholar

Quotes about the past:

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Albert Einstein /

Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.

François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims /

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.

Gautama Buddha /

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.

Jean de La Bruyere - Les Caractères /

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

René Descartes /

When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.

Alexis de Tocqueville /

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Quotes about the future:

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.

Seneca /

As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery - Citadelle /

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Man is the future of man.

Francis Ponge /

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

Marcus Aurelius - Meditations /

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Albert Einstein /

Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.

François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims /

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Quotes about hope:

In all things it is better to hope than to despair.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Torquato Tasso /

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Hope stole into my heart against my will.

Jean Racine - Phèdre /

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Baruch Spinoza - Ethics /

Don't despair.

Quintus Horatius Flaccus - Odes /

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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

Francis Bacon /

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Love is only known by him who hopelessly persists in love.

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Quotes for: ability

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

F. Scott Fitzgerald /

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.

Martin Luther King Jr. /

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

F. Scott Fitzgerald /

Article VI – The law is the expression of the general will. All the citizens have the right of contributing personally or through their representatives to its formation. It must be the same for all, either that it protects, or that it punishes. All the citizens, being equal in its eyes, are equally admissible to all public dignities, places and employments, according to their capacity and without distinction other than that of their virtues and of their talents.

- Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen of 1789 /

It is better to trust in ability than in luck.

Publilius Syrus - Sentences /

The ability of calm reflection is the beginning of all wisdom, the source of all goodness !

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach /

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Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.

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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.

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Earth laughs in flowers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson - Hamatreya /

Money often costs too much.

Ralph Waldo Emerson /

The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.

Ralph Waldo Emerson - Lectures - Education /

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