About Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882), who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, minister, abolitionist, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society and...
More quotations from Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
More quotations tagged with “intelligence”
An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.
You don't have to be a genius when you're surrounded by morons.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
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