To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, — that is genius. Complete Works - Page 47by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1900Full view - About this book
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 354 pages
...The soul always hears an admonition in such lines, let the subject be what it may. The sentiment they instil is of more value than any thought they may contain. To believe your nwp thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, — that... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...Always the soul hears an admonition in such lines, let the subject be what it may. The sentiment they instil is of more value than any thought they may...true for you in your private heart, is true for all men,—that is genius. Speak your latent conviction and it shall be the universal sense; for always... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...Always the soul hears an admonition in such lines, let the subject be what it may. The sentiment they instil is of more value than any thought they may...believe your own thought, to believe that what is tnie for you in your private heart, is true for all men— that is genius. Speak your latent conviction,... | |
| 1849 - 538 pages
...Essay on " Self- Reliance " meets us next, and this is bolder still. " To believe your own thoughts, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, — that is Genius." And happily this genius, we find, may be the lot of all, at least of every Emersonian : the fact is... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...Always the soul hears an admonition in such lines, let the subject be what it may. The sentiment they instil is of more value than any thought they may contain. To believe your own thought^to believe that what is true for you in your private heaVt, is true for all men, — that is... | |
| 1849 - 1052 pages
...Essay on " Self-Reliance 1 " meets us next, and this is bolder still. " To believe your own thoughts. to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is HIM for all men,—that is Genius." And happily this genius, we find, may be the lot of all, at least... | |
| 1850 - 524 pages
...thus taught what is genius: — "To believe your own thought, to believe that which is true for yon in your private heart, is true for all men — that is genius." We believe that the history of certain human opinioas, which have been put-forth as the sincere convictioas... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1852 - 352 pages
...The soul always hears an admonition in such lines, let the subject be what it may. The sentiment they instil is of more value than any thought they may contain. * To believe your own thqugljt^j.0 be; lieve that what is true forypu 'm JQUK.. private hear^ is_true for all menj — thatis... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1906 - 870 pages
...bottom until he thought the truth was reached. He believed in his own thoughts, and, as Emerson said, ' To believe your own thought, to believe that what...private heart is true for all men, that is genius.' Then he had a splendid boldness in brushing difficulties aside, following Lord Bacon's aphorism —... | |
| E. M. King - 1864 - 432 pages
...encouraged through him to think my own thoughts. Such sentences as these have been golden mottos to me: " To believe your own thought; to believe that what...true for you in your private heart is true for all men—that is genius." " He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness,... | |
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