Famous Quotes

Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

• 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.
• 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.