Quotes about Knowledge
The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind, he has descended into the secrets of all minds.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Foolish people ask you, when you speak what they do not wish to hear, How do you know it is the truth, and not an error of your own? We know the truth when we see it, from opinion, as we know when we are awake that we are awake.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
a good reader makes a good book
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The ancient precept, "Know thyself," and the modern precept, "Study nature," become at last one maxim.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
This relation between the mind and matter is not fancied by some poet, but stands in the will of God, and so is free to be known by all men.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Each is liable to panic, which is, exactly, the terror of ignorance surrendered to the imagination.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Montaigne says, "Books are a languid pleasure," but I find certain books vital and spermatic, not leaving the reader what he was; he shuts the book a richer man. I would never willingly read any other than such.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Goodreads could be a source for knowledge but instead does all readers a supreme disservice by allowing the spread of false quotes on the Internet.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson