Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote

There are many virtues in books, but the essential value is the adding of knowledge to our stock by the record of new facts, and, better, by the record of intuitions which distribute facts, and are the formulas which supersede all histories.


Emerson's Complete Works: Letters and social aims (ed. 1968)


There are many virtues in books, but the essential value is the adding of knowledge to our stock by the record of new facts, and, better, by the...

There are many virtues in books, but the essential value is the adding of knowledge to our stock by the record of new facts, and, better, by the...

There are many virtues in books, but the essential value is the adding of knowledge to our stock by the record of new facts, and, better, by the...

There are many virtues in books, but the essential value is the adding of knowledge to our stock by the record of new facts, and, better, by the...