Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Innovation
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In every company, there is not only the active and passive sex, but, in both men and women, a deeper and more important sex of mind, namely, the inventive or creative class of both men and women, and the uninventive or accepting class.
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The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.
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One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive one.
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The two parties which divide the State, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made ... Now one, now the other gets the day, and still the fight renews itself as if for the first time, under new names and hot personalities ... Innovation is the salient energy; Conservatism the pause on the last movement.
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The two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservation and that of Innovation, are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made.
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A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude.
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Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.
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The new statement is always hated by the old, and, to those dwelling in the old, comes like an abyss of skepticism.
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Is it not manifest that our academic institutions should have a wider scope; that they should not be timid and keep the ruts of the last generation, but that wise men thinking for themselves and heartily seeking the good of mankind, and counting the cost of innovation, should dare to arouse the young to a just and heroic life; that the moral nature should be addressed in the school-room, and children should be treated as the high-born candidates of truth and virtue?
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Invention breeds invention.
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He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist.
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Where there is no vision a people perish.
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