Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote

Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.


The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations (ed. 1866)


Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.

Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.

Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.

Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.