 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
 | Charles Henry Woolbert, Andrew Thomas Weaver - 1922 - 424 pages
...your own thought, to believe what is true for you ha your private heart, is true for all men—that is genius. Speak your latent conviction and it shall be the universal sense." We cannot all be geniuses—that would be rather hard on the world—but we can all believe our own... | |
 | University of Michigan. Department of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1923 - 444 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... | |
 | William George Hoffman - 1923 - 312 pages
...Study its meaning in detail and then give it in earnest conversational fashion, as if you enjoyed it: To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your own private heart is true for all men — that is genius. Speak your latent conviction and it shall... | |
 | University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1924 - 446 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... | |
 | 1924 - 1042 pages
...nobility of the mind which is recording itself. His definition of genius is very true of himself — "To believe your own thought, to believe that what...private heart, is true for all men, that is genius." Therefore he speaks out his own thoughts with a burning eloquence born of his absolute sincerity. This... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1924 - 152 pages
...knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end! —INTELLECT + 1 o believe your own thought, to believe that what is...private heart, is true for all men, — that is Genius. — SELF-RELIANCE * We cannot describe the natural history of the Soul but we know that it is divine.... | |
 | Bertrand Lyon - 1925 - 444 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....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... | |
 | Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 pages
...always hears an admonition in such lines, let the subject be what it may. The sentiment they instill 5 the inmost in due time becomes the outmost, and our first thought is rendered back to us by the 1 This... | |
 | George Carpenter Clancy - 1928 - 288 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....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... | |
 | Henry Wheeler Robinson - 1928 - 324 pages
...they were worth, on the deepest convictions of their own hearts, convictions of intrinsic worth. " To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart ia true for all men — that is genius."1 It was the genius of Israel's prophets, and they became prophets... | |
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