Common sense is as rare as genius, - is the basis of genius

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Topics: Common Sense Quotes, Genius Quotes

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Patience and fortitude conquer all things

Patience and fortitude conquer all things

All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud, you have first an instinct,...

All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud, you have first an instinct,...

Knowledge exists to be imparted

Knowledge exists to be imparted

Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts go...

Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts go...

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived - that is...

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived - that is...

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on...

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on...

Always do what you are afraid to do.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals....

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals....

Power is, in nature, the essential measure of right. Nature suffers nothing to remain in...

Power is, in nature, the essential measure of right. Nature suffers nothing to remain in...

Every artist was first an amateur.

Every artist was first an amateur.

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer,...

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer,...

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.

Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.

They (the days) come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant...

They (the days) come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant...

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Fear is the instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions

Fear is the instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies

Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as...

Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as...

Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, But Genius must be born; and...

Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, But Genius must be born; and...