More Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

1. ...the great man is he who in the midst of the cro ...
   
2. A chief event in life is the day in which we have ...
   
3. A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic. ...
   
4. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little m ...
   
5. A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. B ...
   
6. A friend is one before whom I may think aloud. ...
   
7. A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of ...
   
8. A good intention clothes itself with power. ...
   
9. A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he i ...
   
10. A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master ...
    
11. A man is related to all nature. ...
    
12. A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self- ...
    
13. A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is ...
    
14. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam ...
    
15. A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of ...
    
16. A man's wife has more power over him than the stat ...
    
17. A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree wi ...
    
18. A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to ...
    
19. A true friend is somebody who can make us do what ...
    
20. A weed is just a plant whose virtues have not yet ...
    
21. Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. ...
    
22. All conservatives are such from personal defects. ...
    
23. All diseases run into one, old age. ...
    
24. All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the ...
    
25. All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator fo ...
    
26. All life is an experiment. The more experiments yo ...
    
27. All mankind love a lover. ...
    
28. All men are in some degree impressed by the face o ...
    
29. All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable ...
    
30. Always do what you are afraid to do. ...
    
31. Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man has a geni ...
    
32. As soon as there is life there is danger. ...
    
33. As we grow old…the beauty steals inward. ...
    
34. Bad times have a scientific value. These are occas ...
    
35. Be and not seem. ...
    
36. Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if you ...
    
37. Be careful what you set your heart on, for it will ...
    
38. Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. ...
    
39. Before we acquire great power, we must acquire wis ...
    
40. Being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of tr ...
    
41. Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of t ...
    
42. Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend t ...
    
43. Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on ...
    
44. Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their abi ...
    
45. By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we al ...
    
46. By the rude bridge that arched the flood,Their fla ...
    
47. Can anybody remember when the times were not hard ...
    
48. Character is higher than intellect. A great soul w ...
    
49. Character is what can do without success. ...
    
50. Children are all foreigners. ...
    
51. Classic art was the art of necessity: modern roman ...
    
52. Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate sain ...
    
53. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass. ...
    
54. Common sense is as rare as genius. ...
    
55. Condense some daily experience into a glowing symb ...
    
56. Conversation is an art in which a man has all mank ...
    
57. Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered ...
    
58. Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actio ...
    
59. Do not go where the path may lead, go instead wher ...
    
60. Do not say things. What you are stands over you th ...
    
61. Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain ...
    
62. Do what you know and perception is converted into ...
    
63. Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark agains ...
    
64. Each man has his own vocation his talent is his ca ...
    
65. Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not ch ...
    
66. Earth laughs in flowers. ...
    
67. Envy is ignorance, imitation is suicide. ...
    
68. Every artist was first an amateur. ...
    
69. Every burned book or house enlightens the world ev ...
    
70. Every great and commanding moment in the annals of ...
    
71. Every hero becomes a bore at last. ...
    
72. Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a s ...
    
73. Every man I meet is in some way my superior. ...
    
74. Every man is a divinity in disguise, a God playing ...
    
75. Every revolution was first a thought in one man's ...
    
76. Every sweet has its sour every evil its good. ...
    
77. Fame is proof that people are gullible. ...
    
78. Far or forgot to me is nearShadow and sunlight are ...
    
79. Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior ...
    
80. Finish each day and be done with it. You have done ...
    
81. Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of bea ...
    
82. For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seco ...
    
83. For everything you have missed, you have gained so ...
    
84. For nonconformity the world whips you with its dis ...
    
85. Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no pu ...
    
86. Give all to love obey thy heart. ...
    
87. Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds cho ...
    
88. God enters by a private door into every individual ...
    
89. Great men are they who see that the spiritual is s ...
    
90. Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut ...
    
91. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others w ...
    
92. He is great who confers the most benefits. ...
    
93. He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the d ...
    
94. He then learns that in going down into the secrets ...
    
95. He who has a thousand friendsHas not a friend to s ...
    
96. He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, s ...
    
97. He who is not everyday conquering some fear has no ...
    
98. Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The ...
    
99. Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not th ...
    
100. Hitch your wagon to a star. ...
     
101. I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man ...
     
102. I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for ...
     
103. I expect to pass through this world but once. Any ...
     
104. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know. ...
     
105. I have heard with admiring submission the experien ...
     
106. I like the silent church before the service begins ...
     
107. I like to have a man's knowledge comprehend more t ...
     
108. I look on that man as happy, who, when there is qu ...
     
109. I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the ...
     
110. I see her not dispirited, not weak, but well, reme ...
     
111. I used to always think that I'd look back on us cr ...
     
112. Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of ...
     
113. If a man knows the law, find out, though he live i ...
     
114. If eyes were made for seeing,
     Then Beauty is ...
     
115. If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the un ...
     
116. If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs ...
     
117. If there is any period one would desire to be born ...
     
118. If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ...
     
119. If you can not find the truth right where you are, ...
     
120. Imitation is suicide. ...
     
121. Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broa ...
     
122. In art the hand can never execute anything higher ...
     
123. In England every man you meet is some man's son in ...
     
124. In skating over thin ice our safety is in our spee ...
     
125. In the highest civilization, the book is still the ...
     
126. In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten t ...
     
127. In the woods is perpetual youth. ...
     
128. Insist on yourself never imitate. Your own gift yo ...
     
129. Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he ...
     
130. Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleg ...
     
131. It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like ...
     
132. It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone ...
     
133. It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but ...
     
134. It is not length of life, but depth of life. ...
     
135. It is one of the blessings of old friends that you ...
     
136. It is one of the most beautiful compensations of l ...
     
137. It is very easy in the world to live by the opinio ...
     
138. It is very hard to be simple enough to be good. ...
     
139. It makes a great difference in the force of a sent ...
     
140. It seems to me that perfection of means and confus ...
     
141. Knowledge exists to be imparted. ...
     
142. Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dream ...
     
143. Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his digni ...
     
144. Life is a festival only to the wise. ...
     
145. Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effec ...
     
146. Life is a progress, and not a station. ...
     
147. Life is a succession of lessons which must be live ...
     
148. Life is eating us up. We shall be fables presently ...
     
149. Light is the first of painters. There is no object ...
     
150. Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild ...
     
151. Love and you shall be loved. ...
     
152. Love is the essence of God. ...
     
153. Make the most of yourself, for that is all there i ...
     
154. Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make l ...
     
155. Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous ...
     
156. Men are what their mothers made them. ...
     
157. Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of scienc ...
     
158. Men succeed when they realize that their failures ...
     
159. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a m ...
     
160. Money often costs too much. ...
     
161. Money, which represents the prose of life, and whi ...
     
162. My country is the world, and my religion is to do ...
     
163. My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock, ...
     
164. Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. ...
     
165. Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. ...
     
166. Nature hates calculators. ...
     
167. Nature is a mutable cloud, which is always and nev ...
     
168. Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by m ...
     
169. Never read a book that is not a year old. ...
     
170. Next to the originator of a good sentence is the f ...
     
171. No facts are to me sacred none are profane I simpl ...
     
172. No great man ever complains of want of opportunity ...
     
173. None of us will every accomplish anything excellen ...
     
174. Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and ...
     
175. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. ...
     
176. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm ...
     
177. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of you ...
     
178. Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresig ...
     
179. Once you make a decision, the universe conspires t ...
     
180. One man's justice is another's injustice one man's ...
     
181. One of the illusions of life is that the present h ...
     
182. Only those books come down which deserve to last . ...
     
183. Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make ...
     
184. Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experienc ...
     
185. Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can ...
     
186. People do not deserve good writing, they are so pl ...
     
187. People only see what they are prepared to see. ...
     
188. People seem not to see that their opinion of the w ...
     
189. People wish to be settled. It is only as far as th ...
     
190. Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in ev ...
     
191. Pictures must not be too picturesque. ...
     
192. Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the stat ...
     
193. Real friendship is shown in times of trouble prosp ...
     
194. Science does not know its debt to imagination. ...
     
195. Self-trust is the essence of heroism ...
     
196. Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in ...
     
197. Skill to do comes of doing. ...
     
198. So much of our time is preparation, so much is rou ...
     
199. So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it ...
     
200. Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity. ...
     
201. Some have been thought brave because they were afr ...
     
202. Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis. ...
     
203. Sooner of later that which is now life shall be po ...
     
204. Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as ca ...
     
205. Spiritual force is stronger than material force th ...
     
206. Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefa ...
     
207. Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in soci ...
     
208. Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, ...
     
209. That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not ...
     
210. The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in t ...
     
211. The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best ...
     
212. The ancestor of every action is a thought. ...
     
213. The angels are so enamoured of the language that i ...
     
214. The best effect of fine persons is felt after we h ...
     
215. The best lightning rod for your protection is your ...
     
216. The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived ...
     
217. The education of the will is the object of our exi ...
     
218. The end of the human race will be that it will eve ...
     
219. The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to ...
     
220. The faith that stand on authority is not faith. ...
     
221. The first wealth is health. ...
     
222. The glory of friendship is not the outstretched ha ...
     
223. The god of the cannibals will be a cannibal, of th ...
     
224. The greatest gift is a portion of thyself. ...
     
225. The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it. ...
     
226. The imbecility of men is always inviting the impud ...
     
227. The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miracu ...
     
228. The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and de ...
     
229. The less government we have the better. ...
     
230. The life of man is the true romance, which when it ...
     
231. The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we c ...
     
232. The man is only half himself, the other half is hi ...
     
233. The measure of a master is his success in bringing ...
     
234. The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is ...
     
235. The more he talked of his honor, the faster we cou ...
     
236. The next thing to saying a good thing yourself, is ...
     
237. The only gift is a portion of thyself. ...
     
238. The only reward of virtue is virtue the only way t ...
     
239. The only way to have a friend is to be one. ...
     
240. The ornament of a house is the friends who frequen ...
     
241. The people are to be taken in very small doses. ...
     
242. The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of ...
     
243. The power of love, as the basis of a State, has ne ...
     
244. The reason why all men honor love is because it lo ...
     
245. The reliance on property is...the want of self-rel ...
     
246. The Religion that is afraid of science dishonors G ...
     
247. The reward of a thing well done is to have done it ...
     
248. The silence that accepts merit as the most natural ...
     
249. The sky is the daily bread of the eyes. ...
     
250. The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but s ...
     
251. The teaching of politics is that the Government, w ...
     
252. The things taught in colleges and schools are not ...
     
253. The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny ...
     
254. The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, b ...
     
255. The true test of a civilization is not the census, ...
     
256. The truth, the hope of any time, must always be so ...
     
257. The wise man always throws himself on the side of ...
     
258. The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safet ...
     
259. The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool. ...
     
260. The world belongs to the energetic. ...
     
261. The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metap ...
     
262. The years teach much which the days never knew. ...
     
263. There are always those who think they know what is ...
     
264. There are many things of which a wise man might wi ...
     
265. There are two classes of poets - the poets by educ ...
     
266. There is always room for a man of force, and he ma ...
     
267. There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or ...
     
268. There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. ...
     
269. There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly te ...
     
270. There is nothing capricious in nature and the impl ...
     
271. They can conquer who believe they can. He has not ...
     
272. They say the cows laid out Boston. Well, there are ...
     
273. This time, like all times, is a very good one, if ...
     
274. This world we live in is but thickened light. ...
     
275. Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, ...
     
276. Though we travel the world over to find the beauti ...
     
277. Thought is the blossom language the bud action the ...
     
278. Thought is the seed of action. ...
     
279. Tis the good reader that makes the good book. ...
     
280. To be great is to be misunderstood. ...
     
281. To believe your own thought, to believe that what ...
     
282. To fill the hour-that is happiness. ...
     
283. To know even one life has breathed easier because ...
     
284. To know how to suggest is the great art of teachin ...
     
285. To know one life has breathed easier because you h ...
     
286. To laugh often and much to win the respect of inte ...
     
287. To the body and mind which have been cramped by no ...
     
288. To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illu ...
     
289. To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all ...
     
290. Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, s ...
     
291. Trust men and they will be true to you treat them ...
     
292. Trust your instinct to the end, though you can ren ...
     
293. Truth is beautiful, without doubt but so are lies. ...
     
294. Truth is the summit of being justice is the applic ...
     
295. Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, wh ...
     
296. Unless you try to do something beyond what you hav ...
     
297. We aim above the mark to hit the mark. ...
     
298. We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a t ...
     
299. We are prisoners of ideas. ...
     
300. We are shut up in schools and college recitation r ...
     
301. We are students of words: we are shut up in school ...
     
302. We become what we think about all day long. ...
     
303. We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that fee ...
     
304. We do what we must, and call it by the best names. ...
     
305. We find delight in the beauty and happiness of chi ...
     
306. We know better than we do. We do not yet possess o ...
     
307. We take care of our health, we lay up money, we ma ...
     
308. What a new face courage puts on everything. ...
     
309. What a searching preacher of self-command is the v ...
     
310. What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Tak ...
     
311. What greater pain could mortals have than this To ...
     
312. What I must do is all that concerns me. This rule, ...
     
313. What is a weed A plant whose virtues have never be ...
     
314. What is the hardest thing in the world To think. ...
     
315. What lies behind us and what lies before us are ti ...
     
316. What omniscience has music! So absolutely imperson ...
     
317. What we call results are beginnings. ...
     
318. What would be the use of immortality to a person w ...
     
319. What you are shouts so loud in my ears I cannot he ...
     
320. What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear wh ...
     
321. Whatever games are played with us, we must play no ...
     
322. Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course ...
     
323. When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great ...
     
324. When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the t ...
     
325. When it is darkest, men see the stars. ...
     
326. When nature has work to be done, she creates a gen ...
     
327. When you strike at a king, you must kill him. ...
     
328. Who so would be a man, must be a nonconformist. ...
     
329. Whoever is open, loyal, true of humane and affable ...
     
330. Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. ...
     
331. Wit makes its own welcome and levels all distincti ...
     
332. Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar. ...
     
333. Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel ...
     
334. Work is victory. ...
     
335. Write it on your heart that every day is the best ...
     
336. You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never k ...
     
337. You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong. ...
     
338. You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long ...