Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes on Knowledge
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I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called History is.
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There is no knowledge that is not power.
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Science does not know its debt to imagination.
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The profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader. The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.
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A great man quotes bravely, and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word just as good.
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There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant.