"We are wiser than we know...." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.”

“Hitch your wagon to a star.”

“There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.”

“Why is the sea king of a hundred streams? Because it lies below them... If the sage would guide the people, he must serve with humility. If he would lead them, he must follow behind. In this way when the sage rules, the people will not feel oppressed.”

“There was great difference in persons; and discretion did not always accompany years, nor was youth always without it.”

“Destroy your enemy by making him your friend.”

“We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge - and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves - how could it happen that we should ever find ourselves? It has rightly been said: "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also"; our treasure is where the beehives of our knowledge are.”

“A man may call to mind the face of his friend, but not his own. Here, then, is an initial difficulty in the way of applying the maxim, Know Thyself.”

“The sage knows himself, but does not parade. He cherishes himself, but does not praise himself.”