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:-

• In a hamlet of ten households, there are bound to be those who are my equal in doing their best for others and in being trustworthy in what they say, but they are unlikely to be as eager to learn as I am.

  ~ Confucius quotes from The Analects

  Inspirational Quotes on: Wisdom, Learning

• Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Fear, Death, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson

• Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

  ~ Aldous Huxley quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Wisdom, Truth

• 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

  Motivational Quotes on: War, Howard Gardner, Intelligence, Act, Potential, Challenge

• Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

  ~ Abraham Lincoln quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Luck, Abraham Lincoln, Flow, New, Best, Thought

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