Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
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Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.
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Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
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The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.
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All mankind love a lover.
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The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
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We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.
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Good men must not obey the laws too well.
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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
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The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
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Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.
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We cannot overstate our debt to the Past, but the moment has the supreme claim. The Past is for us; but the sole terms on which it can become ours are its subordination to the Present. Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor. We must not tamper with the organic motion of the soul.
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The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
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It is time to be old, To take in sail: - The god of bounds, Who sets to seas a shore, Came to me in his fatal rounds, And said: 'No more!
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If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
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I regard it as the irresistible effect of the Copernican astronomy to have made the theological scheme of redemption absolutely incredible
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As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
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Discontent is the want of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will.
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O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
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If a man own land, the land owns him.
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Whoso walketh in solitude, And inhabiteth the wood, Choosing light, wave, rock, and bird, Before the money-loving herd, Into that forester shall pass From these companions power and grace.