 Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function. Living is the functionary. The stream retreats to its source. A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think. Does he lack organ or medium to impart his truths?  Select Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 327by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 351 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1905 - 508 pages
...acts ; and each fit reproduces the other. When the artist has exhausted his materials, when the fancy no longer paints, when thoughts are no longer apprehended,...think. Does he lack organ or medium to impart his truths ? He can still fall back on this elemental force of living them. This is a total act. Thinking... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1905 - 460 pages
...materials, when the fancy no longer paints;, when thoughts are no longer apprehended, and books arc a weariness, — he has always the resource to live....think. Does he lack organ or medium to impart his truths ? He can still fall back on this elemental force of living them. This is a total act Thinking... | |
 | William Jennings Bryan, Francis Whiting Halsey - 1906 - 286 pages
...acts; and each fit reproduces the other. When the artist has exhausted his materials, when the fancy no longer paints, when thoughts are no longer apprehended,...think. Does he lack organ or medium to impart his truths? He can still fall back on this elemental force of living them. This is a total act. Thinking... | |
 | Samuel Hamilton - 1906 - 376 pages
...importance, but the great aim of study is character. Emerson says, " Character is more than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as strong to act." Manhood is better than intelligence, virtue is above culture, goodness is superior to greatness,... | |
 | 1906 - 418 pages
...ruled my own household well, I had no right to go trying to do good out of doors. — George Macdonald. Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function; living is the functionary. — Emerson. THE No. 12 VISIBLE " ill the Wtrk In Sight all the Time The Hammond is adapted for The... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1907 - 270 pages
...acts, and each fit repro15 duces the other. When the artist has exhausted his materials, when the fancy no longer paints, when thoughts are no longer apprehended...is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function. 20 Living is the functionary. The stream retreats to its source. A great soul will be strong to live,... | |
 | Mary Allette Ayer - 1908 - 212 pages
...of morbid thinkers and miserable workers. — John Rusktn. CHARACTER is higher than intellect. ... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think. — Ralph Waldo Emerson. A/TANY men have their wishbones where their backbones ought to be. ... Do... | |
 | 1909 - 540 pages
...acts; and each fit reproduces the other. When the artist has exhausted his materials, •when the fancy no longer paints, when thoughts are no longer apprehended,...think. Does he lack organ or medium to impart his truths? He can still fall back on this elemental force of living them. This is a total act. Thinking... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 496 pages
...acts; and each fit reproduces the other. When the artist has exhausted his materials, when the fancy no longer paints, when thoughts are no longer apprehended,...think. Does he lack organ or medium to impart his truths? He can still fall back on this elemental force of living them. This is a total act. Thinking... | |
 | Abby Willis Howes - 1909 - 196 pages
...throughout his later writings. He further believed that character is higher than intellect, that " a great soul will be strong to live as well as strong to think." He intensely loved nature, and believed that man, through solitary communings in field and forest,... | |
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