Logo
People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Life
category

As soon as there is life there is danger. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Category:
Life

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, youve got it made. – Groucho Marx

Category:
Life

To live remains an art which everyone must learn, and which no one can teach. – Havelock Ellis

Category:
Life

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious. – Brendan Gill

Category:
Life

Random Quotes

Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system. – Sidney Hook

Category:
Education

He described how, as a boy of 14, his dad had been down the mining pit, his uncle had been down the pit, his brother had been down the pit, and of course he would go down the pit. – Barbara Castle

Category:
dad

If I respect myself and believe in what Im doing, no one can touch me. – Fiona Apple

Category:
respect

Online, theres no time. Its always Christmas. – Lewis Black

Category:
Christmas