Famous Quotes

Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
• Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
• Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
• Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.
• Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
• Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
• Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
• For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
• Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
• Genius always finds itself a century too early.
• God enters by a private door into every individual.
• God screens us evermore from premature ideas.
• Good men must not obey the laws too well.
• Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
• Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
• Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
• Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.
• He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
• 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.
• I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
• In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
• In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
• In the morning a man walks with his whole body in the evening, only with his legs.
• It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.
• It is not length of life, but depth of life.
• It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
• It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
• Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
• Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
• Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
• Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.
• Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
• Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
• Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
• Men are what their mothers made them.