Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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Loading ...“Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.”
“Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.”
“A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.”
“There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.”
“The years teach much which the days never knew.”
“In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.”
“A man in debt is so far a slave.”
“Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.”
“We are always getting ready to live but never living.”
“We acquire the strength we have overcome.”
“There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.”
“A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.”
“Pictures must not be too picturesque.”
“We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.”
“Doing well is the result of doing good. That’s what capitalism is all about.”
“We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.”
“In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.”
“People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.”
“Our best thoughts come from others.”
“It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.”
“One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.”
“Every man I meet is in some way my superior.”
“The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.”
“Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.”
“Every wall is a door.”
“The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.”
“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
“The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.”
“Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.”
“Divine persons are character born, or, to borrow a phrase from Napoleon, they are victory organized.”
“The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.”
“There is a good ear, in some men, that draws supplies to virtue out of very indifferent nutriment.”
“Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.”
“The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.”
“All life is an experiment.”
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
“A good indignation brings out all one’s powers.”
“A great man is always willing to be little.”
“The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.”
“There is also something excellent in every audience, the capacity of virtue. They are ready to be beatified.”
“He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.”
“Nothing external to you has any power over you.”
“What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.”
“There is creative reading as well as creative writing.”
“Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.”
“Children are all foreigners.”
“If in the least particular one could derange the order of nature, who would accept the gift of life?”
“Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.”
“A man is what he thinks about all day long.”
“There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.”
“Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.”
“Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.”
“It is not length of life, but depth of life.”
“Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.”
“If a man can… make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.”
“If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.”
“Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.”
“When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.”
“Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.”
“Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.”
“Flowers… are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.”
“Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.”
“This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.”
“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”
“Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.”
“When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.”
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