 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 - 1893 - 126 pages
...always hears an admonition in such lines, let the subject be what it may. The sentiment they instill is of more value than any thought they may contain....latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense ; J for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost, — and our first thought is rendered back to us... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 168 pages
...a bundle of relations, a knot of roots, whose flower and fruitage is the world. August Seventeenth. To believe your own thought, to believe that what...true for you in your private heart is true for all men,—that is genius. August Eighteenth. August Nineteenth. Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1894 - 334 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 ycur own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart, is true for all men,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1895 - 334 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 ycur own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart, is true for all men,... | |
 | 1896 - 374 pages
...always hears an admonition in such lines, let the subject be what it may. The sentiment they instill is of more value than any thought they may contain....latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense ;1 for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost, — and our first thought is rendered back to us... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1896 - 292 pages
...had not he preached the adamantine doctrine of selftrust? "To believe your own thought," he says, " to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true of all men, — that is genius." In many ways was Whitman, quite unconsciously to himself, the man... | |
 | 1899 - 704 pages
...hand, ÊDur tongue ; look like the innocent flower, / ut be the serpent under *t- Л/лгЛ., i. 5. To believe your own thought, to believe that what...true for you in your private heart is true for all men—that is genius. Emerson, To blow is not to play the flute ; you must move the fingers as well.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 206 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 ownl thought, to believe that what is true for you! • in your private heart is true for all men,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 66 pages
...soul hears an admonition in such lines, let the subject be what it may. The sentiment they instill is of more value than any thought they may contain....your private heart, is true for all men, — that is genius.-Speak your latent conviction and it shall be the universal sense ; for always the inmost becomes... | |
 | Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denney - 1902 - 408 pages
...experience, my observations, my heart and soul into my work." " To believe your own thought," says Emerson, " to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men — that is genius." And Emerson goes on to point out the value of this belief in one's own thought in a passage that every... | |
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