"The gates of thought, - how slow..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
The gates of thought, - how slow and late they discover themselves! Yet when they appear, we see that they were always there, always open.
More by Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.”
“I please myself with the graces of the winter scenery, and believe that we are as much touched by it as by the genial influences of summer.”
“Among the multitude of scholars and authors, we feel no hallowing presence; we are sensible of a knack and skill rather than of inspiration; they have a light, and know not whence it comes, and call it their own; their talent is some exaggerated faculty, some overgrown member, so that their strength is a disease.”
More on Thought
“There is nothing in your mind which wasn't experienced before hand.”
“She was not often invited to join in the conversation of the others, nor did she desire it. Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.”
“We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.”
More on Discovery
“Set yourself earnestly to discover what you are made to do, and then give yourself passionately to the doing of it.”
“It is not worth the while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar. Yet do this even till you can do better, and you may perhaps find some "Symmes' Hole" by which to get at the inside at last.”
“The world is so much larger than I thought. I thought we went along paths--but it seems there are no paths. The going itself is the path.”