Ralph Waldo Emerson Short Quotes

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Heroism feels and never reasons and therefore is always right.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Many times the reading of a book has made the future of a man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you take in a lie, you must take in all that belongs to it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
In America and Europe, the nomadism is of trade and curiosity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Moon, planet, gas, crystal, are concrete geometry and numbers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Manners are very communicable: men catch them from each other.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
The hero sees that the event is ancillary: it must follow him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Each man reserves to himself alone the right of being tedious.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
I always seem to suffer some loss of faith on entering cities.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our books approach very slowly the things we most wish to know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Profound sincerity is the only basis of talent as of character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no man of Nature's worth
In the circle of the earth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
We must be lovers, and at once the impossible becomes possible.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our statute is a currency which we stamp with our own portrait.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Earth's a howling wilderness,
Truculent with fraud and force.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am always insincere, as always knowing there are other moods.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
None shall rule but the humble,
And none but Toil shall have.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Coolness and absence of heat and haste indicate fine qualities.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites.

Ralph Waldo Emerson