Famous Quotes

Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

• The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.
• The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
• The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
• The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.
• The years teach much which the days never know.
• There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.
• There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
• This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
• Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
• To be great is to be misunderstood.
• To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
• Trust men and they will be true to you treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
• Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
• Truth is beautiful, without doubt but so are lies.
• Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.
• Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
• We acquire the strength we have overcome.
• We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.
• We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.
• We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
• We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
• We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.
• What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
• When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
• Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.
• Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
• Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
• With the past, I have nothing to do nor with the future. I live now.
• Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.