Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Make yourself necessary to somebody... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every wall is a door... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hitch your wagon to a star... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Genius always finds itself a century too early... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Happy is the hearing man.. view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good men must not obey the laws too well... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

God screens us evermore from premature ideas... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

God enters by a private door into every individual... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson