Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?.. view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Cause and effect are two sides of one fact... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Children are all foreigners... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Each age, it is found, must write its own books.. view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every artist was first an amateur... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every book is a quotation.. view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every burned book enlightens the world... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every man I meet is in some way my superior... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Money often costs too much... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

A good indignation brings out all one's powers... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

A great man is always willing to be little... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man in debt is so far a slave... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

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... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best.. view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson