Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
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With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
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The highest revelation is that God is in every man.
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Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.
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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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When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.
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All mankind love a lover.
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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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Every really able man, in whatever direction he work,-a man of large affairs, an inventor, a statesman, an orator, a poet, a painter,-if you talk sincerely with him, considers his work, however much admired, as far short of what it should be.
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A man is a golden impossibility. The line he must walk is a hair's breadth. The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
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The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
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Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying.
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It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.
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The highest compact we can make with our fellow, is, - 'Let there be truth between us two forevermore'.
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Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.
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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
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Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.
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The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.
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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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None shall rule but the humble, And none but Toil shall have.
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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 search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
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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'.