 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.  Essays - Page 45by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 371 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 478 pages
...some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional.' The soul always hears an admonition in such lines, let the subject...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... | |
 | Sherwin Cody - 1903 - 476 pages
...some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional. The soul always hears an admonition in such lines, let the subject...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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 362 pages
...some verses written by an eminent painter * which were original and not conventional. The soul always hears an admonition in such lines, let the subject...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... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1904 - 336 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... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1904 - 336 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 138 pages
...labor, which your necessities or the necessities of others impose. LITERARY ETHICS SEPTEMBER NINTH To believe your own thought, to believe that what...for all men, — that is genius. Speak your latent conviclion, and it shall be the universal sense. SELF-RELIANCE SEPTEMBER TENTH The one prudence in... | |
 | 1906 - 866 pages
...he thought the truth was reached. He believed in his own thoughts, and, as Emerson said, "Tobelieve your own thought, to believe that what is true for...in your private heart is true for all men. that is genins." Then he had a splendid boldness in brushing difficulties aside, following lx)rd Bacon's aphorism—... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1907 - 270 pages
...be what it may. The sentiment they instil is of more value than any thought they may contain. To 5 believe your own thought, to believe that what is...latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense ; l for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost, and our first thought is rendered back to us 10... | |
 | Henry Guy Walters - 1907 - 116 pages
...own." History (op. cit. p. 1.) "The whole of history is in one man." Self-reliance (op. cit. p. 1.) "To believe your own thought; to believe that what...true for you in your private heart is true for all men—that is genius." Self-reliance (op. clt. p. 1.) te° Mane" is "Speak your latent convicMateriai... | |
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