Ralph Waldo Emerson Degrees Quotations

The eloquence of one stimulates all the rest, some up to the speaking-point, and all others to a degree that makes them good receivers and conductors, and they avenge themselves for their enforced silence by increased loquacity on their return.

A new degree of intellectual power seems cheap at any price.

We imperatively require a perception of and a homage to beauty in our companions. Other virtues are in request in the field and workyard, but a certain degree of taste is not to be spared in those we sit with.

We boil at different degrees.

There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile. Permanence is but a word of degrees.

The learned and the studious of thought have no monopoly of wisdom. Their violence of direction in some degree disqualifies them to think truly.

Any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.