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:-

• The wise man…lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.

  ~ Seneca quotes from Letters from a Stoic

  Motivational Quotes on: Wisdom, Simplicity, Wise

• Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

  ~ Pablo Picasso quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Humor, General

• Until one acknowledges the genius within oneself, one will have great difficulty recognizing it in others.

  ~ Dr. David Hawkins quotes from Power vs. Force

  Motivational Quotes on: Genius, Power, Great, Edge, Within, Knowledge

• Before the development of tourism, travel was conceived to be like study, and it's fruits were considered to be the adornment of the mind and the formation of the judgment.

  ~ Paul Fussell quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Judgment, Mind, Fruit, Development

• The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

  ~ Emile Zola quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Work, Gift

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