 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. Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense ; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost, and our...  Twelve Essays - Page 38by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 261 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James M. Jasper - 2000 - 330 pages
...genius. Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost, and our first thought is rendered...back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment." Then, "Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string." And later: "No law can be sacred to... | |
 | David Ross Williams - 2000 - 224 pages
...Emerson at least had the right approach: "To believe that what is 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." Therefore, Sin Boldly! Stand fast in the liberty of the spirit and be not entangled again in the yoke... | |
 | Diane Ravitch - 2000 - 662 pages
...may contain. 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. Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be universal sense; for always the inmost becomes the outmost — and our first thought is rendered back... | |
 | James M. Jasper - 2009 - 328 pages
...own thought, to believe that what is 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 the inmost in due time becomes the outmost, and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets... | |
 | Alan Jacobs - 2001 - 204 pages
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 | Richard Schacht - 2001 - 292 pages
...p. 142) (3b) 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. Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense. ("Self-reliance," p. 259) (4a) "[H]uman beings ... are timid. They hide themselves behind customs and... | |
 | David Wittenberg - 2002 - 300 pages
...the fourth sentence had defined as self-reliance, namely, "genius," or "believing your own thought": "Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost,—and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets... | |
 | Brenda Sharp - 2002 - 0 pages
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