You must elect your work; you shall take what your brains can, and drop all the rest. Only so can that amount of vital force accumulate which can make the step from knowing to doing. No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken. It is a step out of a chalk circle of imbecility into fruitfulness.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIntellect is a fire; rash and pitiless it melts this wonderful bone-house which is called man. Genius even, as it is the greatestgood, is the greatest harm.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWhat is addressed to us for contemplation does not threaten us, but makes us intellectual beings.
Ralph Waldo EmersonLive in the fields, and God will give you lectures on natural philosophy every day.
Ralph Waldo Emerson