Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
1086
AUTHOR:
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82)
QUOTATION:
What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects. What is life but what a man is thinking of all day? This is his fate and his employer. Knowing is the measure of the man. By how much we know, so much we are.
ATTRIBUTION:
RALPH WALDO EMERSON, “Natural History of Intellect,” part 1, Natural History of Intellect and Other Papers (vol. 12 of The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson), p. 10 (1921).
