Famous Quotes

Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
• Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
• Money often costs too much.
• Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
• Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
• Nature hates calculators.
• Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
• No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
• No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
• No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
• Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
• Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
• Nothing external to you has any power over you.
• Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
• Our best thoughts come from others.
• Our faith comes in moments our vice is habitual.
• Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
• Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
• People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
• People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.
• Pictures must not be too picturesque.
• Power and speed be hands and feet.
• Science does not know its debt to imagination.
• Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
• Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
• The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
• The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
• The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.
• The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
• The first wealth is health.
• The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
• The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
• The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.
• The highest revelation is that God is in every man.
• The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
• The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?
• The only way to have a friend is to be one.
• The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
• The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
• The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.