Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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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.
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Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
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Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
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No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
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Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.
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Pictures must not be too picturesque.
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The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
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America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.
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I saw men go up and down, In the country and the town, With this tablet on their neck,- 'Judgement and a judge we seek.' Not to monarchs they repair, Nor to learned jurist's chair; But they hurry to their peers, To their kinsfolk and their dears; Louder than with speech they pray,- 'What am I? companion, say.'
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Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
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Heroism feels and never reasons and therefore is always right.
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The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
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A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.
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In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
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The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome.
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The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
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One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.
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Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
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If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
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Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.
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Make yourself necessary to somebody.