Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes And Sayings

Science Does Not Know Its Debt To Imagination.

Every Man Is A Quotation From All His Ancestors.

Curiosity Is Lying In Wait For Every Secret.

Genius Always Finds Itself A Century Too Early.

It Was High Counsel That I Once Heard Given To A Young Person, 'Always Do What You Are Afraid To Do.'

Nature Hates Calculators.

America Is Another Name For Opportunity.

Every Hero Becomes A Bore At Last.

I Like The Silent Church Before The Service Begins, Better Than Any Preaching.

The Ancestor Of Every Action Is A Thought.

Every Man In His Lifetime Needs To Thank His Faults.

A Man Is The Whole Encyclopedia Of Facts.

It Is One Of The Blessings Of Old Friends That You Can Afford To Be Stupid With Them.

What Is A Weed? A Plant Whose Virtues Have Never Been Discovered.

Every Known Fact In Natural Science Was Divined By The Presentiment Of Somebody, Before It Was Actually Verified.

There Is An Optical Illusion About Every Person We Meet.

The Wave Of Evil Washes All Our Institutions Alike.

It Is The Quality Of The Moment, Not The Number Of Days, Or Events, Or Of Actors, That Imports.

The Search After The Great Men Is The Dream Of Youth, And The Most Serious Occupation Of Manhood.

It Is Said That The World Is In A State Of Bankruptcy, That The World Owes The World More Than The World Can Pay.

The Greatest Glory In Living Lies Not In Never Falling, But In Rising Every Time We Fall.

Who Hears Me, Who Understands Me, Becomes Mine, A Possession For All Time.

The Faith That Stands On Authority Is Not Faith.

I Have Thought A Sufficient Measure Of Civilization Is The Influence Of Good Women.

In All My Lectures, I Have Taught One Doctrine, Namely, The Infinitude Of The Private Man.

Nature Is The Incarnation Of Thought. The World Is The Mind Precipitated.

A Good Indignation Brings Out All One's Powers.

Getting Old Is A Fascination Thing. The Older You Get, The Older You Want To Get.

Nothing Astonishes Men So Much As Common Sense And Plain Dealing.

Make Yourself Necessary To Somebody.

Manners Require Time, And Nothing Is More Vulgar Than Haste.

Beauty Without Grace Is The Hook Without The Bait.

A Great Man Is Always Willing To Be Little.

Men Are What Their Mothers Made Them.

Life Consists In What A Man Is Thinking Of All Day.

Reality Is A Sliding Door.

Every Natural Fact Is A Symbol Of Some Spiritual Fact.

No Change Of Circumstances Can Repair A Defect Of Character.

A Great Part Of Courage Is The Courage Of Having Done The Thing Before.

Society Is Always Taken By Surprise At Any New Example Of Common Sense.

There Is Always Safety In Valor.

Great Men Or Men Of Great Gifts You Shall Easily Find, But Symmetrical Men Never.

Our Faith Comes In Moments; Our Vice Is Habitual.

Life Is Our Dictionary.

There Is More Difference In The Quality Of Our Pleasures Than In The Amount.

People Do Not Seem To Realize That Their Opinion Of The World Is Also A Confession Of Character.

I Have Lost My Mental Faculties But Am Perfectly Well.

Cause And Effect Are Two Sides Of One Fact.

We Have Listened Too Long To The Courtly Muses Of Europe.

The Civilized Man Has Built A Coach, But Has Lost The Use Of His Feet.