There are twenty ways of going to a point, and one is the shortest; but set out at once on one. A man who has that presence of mind which can bring to him on the instant all he knows, is worth for action a dozen men who know as much, but can only bring it to light slowly.


The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations (ed. 1866)


There are twenty ways of going to a point, and one is the shortest; but set out at once on one. A man who has that presence of mind which can bring...

There are twenty ways of going to a point, and one is the shortest; but set out at once on one. A man who has that presence of mind which can bring...

There are twenty ways of going to a point, and one is the shortest; but set out at once on one. A man who has that presence of mind which can bring...

There are twenty ways of going to a point, and one is the shortest; but set out at once on one. A man who has that presence of mind which can bring...