Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe frost which kills the harvest of a year saves the harvest of a century, by destroying the weevil or the locust.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIt is God in you that responds to God without, or affirms his own words trembling on the lips of another.
Ralph Waldo EmersonAs thinkers, mankind has ever divided into two sects, Materialists and Idealists; the first class founding on experience, the second on consciousness; the first class beginning to think from the data of the senses, the second class perceive that the senses are not final and say, The senses give us representations of things, but what are the things themselves, they cannot tell. The materialist insists on facts, on history, on the force of circumstances and the animal wants of man; the idealists on the power of Thought and Will, on inspiration, on miracle, on individual culture.
Ralph Waldo Emerson