Emerson instructed us to “Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your reading have been to you like the blast of truimpth out of Shakespeare, Seneca, Moses, John and Paul.”

Following Emerson’s guidance, I offer some of my favorite blasts of triumph. You can search by topic or by teacher or you can just hit refresh and keep getting 5 new random quotes below:-

• Everything in the universe is a pitcher brimming with wisdom and beauty.

  ~ Mevlana Rumi quotes from Rumi Daylight: A Daybook of Spiritual Guidance

  Motivational Quotes on: Wisdom, Learning, Beauty

• Great performers are, by definition, abnormal; they strive throughout their entire careers to separate themselves from the pack.

  ~ John Eliot, Ph.D. quotes from Overachievement: The New Model for Exceptional Performance

  Self-Development Quotes on: John Eliot, Overachievement, Careers, New, Great, Achievement, Career

• Sell your cleverness, and purchase bewilderment.

  ~ Jelaluddin Rumi quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Rumi, Sufi

• Now intelligence seemed quantifiable. You could measure someone's actual or potential height, and now, it seemed, you could also measure someone's actual or potential intelligence. We had one dimension of mental ability along which we could array everyone... The whole concept has to be challenged; in fact, it has to be replaced.

  ~ Howard Gardner quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: War, Howard Gardner, Intelligence, Act, Potential, Challenge

• Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

  ~ Arthur C. Clarke quotes

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