"Men should take their knowledge from the..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men should take their knowledge from the Sun, the Moon and the Stars.
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“Knowledge is the antidote to fear,-Knowledge, Use and Reason, with its higher aids.”
“Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.”
“Every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good. But it finds its own success at last, and then the prudent also extol.”
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“Wonder is the beginning of the desire to know the beautiful and the good.”
“One always has exaggerated ideas about what one doesn't know.”
“One problem with our current society is that we have an attitude towards education as if it is there to simply make you more clever, make you more ingenious... Even though our society does not emphasize this, the most important use of knowledge and education is to help us understand the importance of engaging in more wholesome actions and bringing about discipline within our minds. The proper utilization of our intelligence and knowledge is to effect changes from within to develop a good heart.”
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“The moon, like to a silver bow new bent in heaven.”
“So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked.”
“Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay.”