Quotes about Insight
We are wiser than we know.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Imagination is a very high sort of seeing.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never read a book that is not a year old.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Years teach much which the days never knew.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind, he has descended into the secrets of all minds.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our eyes are holden that we cannot see things that stare us in the face, until the hour arrives when the mind is ripened; then we behold them, and the time when we saw them not is like a dream.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
a good reader makes a good book
— Ralph Waldo Emerson