I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself.…

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Topics: Awakening Quotes

There is properly no history; only biography

There is properly no history; only biography

Happiness is just an illusion caused by the temporary absence of reality.

Happiness is just an illusion caused by the temporary absence of reality.

For me, commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of...

For me, commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of...

All diseases run into one, old age.

All diseases run into one, old age.

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

Do what you are afraid to do

Do what you are afraid to do

We love force and we care very little how it is exhibited

We love force and we care very little how it is exhibited

Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library: a company of the wisest and...

Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library: a company of the wisest and...

Skepticism is slow suicide

Skepticism is slow suicide

I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.

I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.

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

The years teach much which the days never knew.

The years teach much which the days never knew.

Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only...

Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only...

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy

Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them...

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them...

Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.

Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.

I want people to be blown away when I do what they don't expect.

I want people to be blown away when I do what they don't expect.

Our blunders mostly come from letting our wishes interpret our duties

Our blunders mostly come from letting our wishes interpret our duties

When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having...

When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having...