Quotes Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind...

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, eit...

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it ...

One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative...

Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, ...

Our best thoughts come from others....

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we ...

Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual....

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up...

Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all thing...

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be at...

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge...

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the worl...

People only see what they are prepared to see....

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is al...

People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they a...

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical an...

Pictures must not be too picturesque....

Power and speed be hands and feet....

Reality is a sliding door....

Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman, repo...

Revolutions go not backward....

Science does not know its debt to imagination....

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and...

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of co...