To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

I Hate Quotations .Tell Me What you know.

Journals: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals: May 1849: This is a remark Emerson wrote referring to the unreliability of second hand testimony and worse upon the subject of immortality. It is often taken out of proper context, and has even begun appearing on the internet as “I hate quotations. Tell me what you know” or sometimes Read More…

Money, which represents the prose of life, and is hardly spoken of in parlors without apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.

Source: Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Nominalist and Realist”, Essays: second series (1844), Page: 252

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The secret in education lies in respecting the student.

Complete Quote: The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.

We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitationrooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.

The secret of education lies in respecting the student.

Complete Quote: The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.

If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.