Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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We are wiser than we know.
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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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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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He is great who is what he is from Nature, and who never reminds us of others.
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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
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We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
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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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I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.
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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
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Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying.
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Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, 'If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?'
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Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
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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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Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.
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Some of your hurts you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you endured From evils which never arrived!
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We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
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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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When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.