Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

What we seek we shall find.. view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?.. view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

We acquire the strength we have overcome... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

With the past, I have nothing to do.. view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

The years teach much which the days never know... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right.. view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is a tendency for things to right themselves... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is always safety in valor... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is an optical illusion about every person we meet... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Truth is beautiful, without doubt.. view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is creative reading as well as creative writing... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Trust men and they will be true to you.. view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

To be great is to be misunderstood... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

The reward of a thing well done is having done it... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Earth laughs in flowers... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson