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QuoteWorld :: Learning :: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson in Learning category:
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"Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss." 4.4545 average rating  
"A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam that flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his own thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a sort of alienated majesty." 4.2000 average rating  
"They can conquer who believe they can. He has not learned the first lesson in life who does not every day surmount a fear." 4.9286 average rating  
"He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life." 5.0000 average rating  
"He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds."  
 




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