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In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.


Ralph Waldo Emerson

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In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil
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RALPH WALDO EMERSON There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; t...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON If we encountered a man or rare intellect, we should ask him what books he read. - Ralph Wald...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything right...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON: Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough for literature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson,
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Ralph Waldo Emerson would definitely be my homeboy.
RAINN WILSON Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone. - Ralph Waldo ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON I appeal from your customs. I must be myself. I cannot break myself any longer for you, or you. If y...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary, Ralph Waldo Emerson.
JENNIFER L. SCOTT The only way to have a friend is to be one. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right. -Ralph Waldo Emerso...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century. -...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON My Mt. Rushmore of hero worship would include Ralph Waldo Emerson, Marcus Aurelius, Frank Sinatra an...
KAREN DUFFY "When a whole nation is roaring patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanne...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. -Ralph Wa...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON To believe your own thought, to believe that that what is true for you in your private heart is true...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON When Shakespeare is charges with debts to his authors, Landor replies, "Yet he was more original th...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Ralph Waldo Emerson had this philosophy about be silly, be honest and be kind. I really try to talk ...
COLIN SHAHA He told me that when (Ralph Waldo) Emerson came to California, (Muir) tried to get him to come out a...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule. Anger is an uncontrollable f...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON In my walks, every man I meet is my superior in some way, and in that I learn from him.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON I am a pupil of Pissarro.
PAUL CEZANNE Emerson is the spokesman and prophet of youth and of a formative, idealistic age. His is a voice fro...
JOHN BURROUGHS Ralph Waldo Emerson once asked what we would do if the stars only came out once every thousand years...
PAUL HAWKEN We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at las...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON That popular fable of the sot who was picked up dead drunk in the street, carried to the duke's hous...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is, that it scatters your force. ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The secret of fortune is joy in our hands. Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man....
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Prayer that craves a particular commodity—anything less than all good, is vicious. Prayer is the c...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Ralph is there for every employee who needs him.
KATHY BENNETT The now wherein God made the first man, and the now wherein the last man disappears, and the now I a...
MEISTER ECKHART The "now" wherein God made the first man, and the "now" wherein the last man disappears, and the "no...
MEISTER ECKHART Let each man pass his days in that wherein his skill is greatest.
SEXTUS PROPERTIUS I love my husband. I believe in him, and I am proud of his accomplishments.
PAT NIXON Every man should have laws of his own, I should think; commandments of his own, for every man has a ...
GILBERT PARKER Every man should have laws of his own, I should think; commandments of his own, for every man has a ...
GILBERT PARKER As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an ...
MARCUS T. CICERO As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an o...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an ol...
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters. •Evander Holyfield The les...
EVANDER HOLYFIELD For every man there is something in the vocabulary that would stick to him like a second skin. His e...
AMBROSE BIERCE The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but deliverance from fear
RALPH WALDO EMERSON I was too much of a Bronx kid to read Emerson or Hawthorne.
DON DELILLO I am so attracted to ambition and drive and talent. If a man loves something and can put his heart i...
MEAGHAN RATH Learn to know every man under you, get under his skin, know his faults. Then cater to him - with kin...
JOHN MCGRAW Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagre...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Michael Emerson is just a prince. There's something about him. He's so sweet. I don't kn...
SARAH SHAHI I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
GALILEO I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
GALILEO GALILEI There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There ...
HERMANN HESSE Beware of charisma . . . Representative Men; was Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1850 phrase for the great men...
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it...
MURIEL SPARK And the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and said unto her, Entice him, and see wherein hi...
BIBLE And I know that I am. I am his moon, and his brightly shining star. I am his life, his heart. I am a...
STACEY JAY The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Every philosophy is a foreground philosophy — that is a hermit's judgment: "There is something arb...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Every man may reign secure in his petty tyranny, and spread terror and desolation around him, until ...
JAMES OTIS Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Let every man abide in the calling wherein he is called and his work will be as sacred as the work o...
A.W. TOZER I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
GALILEO GALILEI I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. -Galileo Galilei.
GALILEO GALILEI Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?
BIBLE I'm a religious man. I am Jewish but I believe in all religions. I believe in God and see him as...
URI GELLER I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
PABLO PICASSO I learn something every day over here. I am having too much fun to retire.
VIRGIL KELLY Hiding in all the thorns, there is a yellow rose.
BEN OAK I am a bit in love with a new designer, George Hobeika; I have worn him a couple of times on the car...
DARBY STANCHFIELD There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, whe...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes.
CRAIG GROESCHEL I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I'm doing.
JIMMY PAGE I believe in blues, and I believe that it's been misrepresented.
JOHN MAYER I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
PABLO PICASSO I believe in doing what I am best at.
N. T. RAMA RAO, JR. There was something else amusing about the house: the irony that the most important battle of the Am...
JOSH BARKAN The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in see...
ALFRED ADLER There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it.
GEORGE HERBERT There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it
GEORGE HERBERT I'm a religious man. I am Jewish but I believe in all religions. I believe in God and see him as an ...
URI GELLER I repent me of the ignorance wherein I ever said that God made man out of nothing: there is no nothi...
GEORGE MACDONALD He was a very stern man, referred to me as his boy. I was his star pupil and he was my mentor.
J. LOREN WINCE Who am I? I am that. Nothing can change that. Words, intellect and concepts can never reach that. It...
AMIT RAY Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.
THOMAS MERTON A quote isn't a quote until that quote is quotably quoted by and official Quotesman
I AM TIMEPIECE The internet has too much information out there for you to ask a dumb question
I AM TIMEPIECE I am no longer a rare breed, I am an endangered species
I AM TIMEPIECE I wish there was an edit button on Life because sometimes we don't realize the mistakes we've made u...
I AM TIMEPIECE Life are full of memories, capture them
I AM TIMEPIECE I don't fit in because I was born to stand out
I AM TIMEPIECE There is no doubt that I am selective in my listening, hence "directive" if people wish to accuse me...
CARL R. ROGERS I was only going to say," said Scrooge's nephew, "that the consequence of his taking a dislike to us...
CHARLES DICKENS Feast of Thomas the Apostle Long did I toil and knew no earthly rest, Far did I rove and found no c...
J. QUARLES Every day may not be good, but there is something good in every day.
BY ALEFLETCHER I wanted him to do his program tonight like he does it in practice every day but I am so very proud ...
LINDA BRANAN I am a capitalist and I believe in making a profit.
FELIX ROHATYN I am where I am because I believe in all possibilities.
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RALPH WALDO EMERSON Nothing external to you has any power over you.
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RALPH WALDO EMERSON Some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise.
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RALPH WALDO EMERSON A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
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RALPH WALDO EMERSON Wherever there is power there is age.
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RALPH WALDO EMERSON The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent t...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON A friend may be nature's most magnificent creation.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Let us treat the men and women well: treat them as if they were real: perhaps they are.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Music causes us to think eloquently.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The world is his who has money to go over it.
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