Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
-
Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there, do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.
-
Genius always finds itself a century too early.
-
The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.
-
We have listened too long to the courtly Muses of Europe.
-
As we are, so we associate. The good, by affinity, seek the good; the vile, by affinity, the vile. Thus of their own volition, souls proceed into Heaven, into Hell.
-
The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
-
A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
-
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
-
Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.
-
I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared 'that the sense of being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow'.
-
In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
-
Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
-
Beauty without expression is boring.
-
He is great who is what he is from Nature, and who never reminds us of others.
-
Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
-
A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
-
The highest compact we can make with our fellow, is, - 'Let there be truth between us two forevermore'.
-
The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation.
-
All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
-
The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
-
Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life.
-
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
-
There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.
-
All diseases run into one, old age.