Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Pictures must not be too picturesque... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

People that seem so glorious are all show.. view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

People only see what they are prepared to see... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Power and speed be hands and feet... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our faith comes in moments.. view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our best thoughts come from others... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

What you are comes to you... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are always getting ready to live but never living... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are wiser than we know... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

We must be our own before we can be another's... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

We aim above the mark to hit the mark... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man is a method, a progressive arrangement.. view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson