Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.
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Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.
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Science does not know its debt to imagination.
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What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.
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Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
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Genius always finds itself a century too early.
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A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
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Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.
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Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
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We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
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Every wall is a door.
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Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
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No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
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Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
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Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
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The years teach much which the days never know.
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Without electricity, the air would rot.
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We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.
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Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
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Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
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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.
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The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.