Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Awakening

• Art should exhilarate, and throw down the walls of circumstance on every side, awakening in the beholder the same sense of universal relation and power which the work evinced in the artist.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Wall, Awakening

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1409, Delphi Classics

• I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, School, Knowledge

• Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Educational, Awakening, Scholarship

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Lectures and biographical sketches”

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