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The hearing
ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no
genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited
and gladly entertained by men around him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet,
Essayist
Only an
inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be
an inventor.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet,
Essayist
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.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet,
Essayist
Everybody
hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.
-- Desiderius Erasmus
c.1466-1536, Dutch Humanist
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