 | 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... | |
 | Fredrika Bremer - 1853 - 664 pages
...life. In his lecture on self-reliance, he says: * " To believe your own thought—to believe that which 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 always the inmost becomes the... | |
 | Fredrika Bremer - 1854 - 676 pages
...In his lecture on self-reliance, he says : " To believe your own thought — to believe that which 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 always the inmost becomes the... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 pages
...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...private heart is true for all men, — that is genius. Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense ; for the inmost iu due time becomes... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 470 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 504 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 302 pages
...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...your private heart is true for all men, — that is genins. Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense ; for the inmost in due time... | |
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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. 
