Ralph Waldo Emerson's Quotes

Ralph Waldo Emerson's Quotes 334

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some...

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very...

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with...

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight of the perfection of the...

The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.

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

Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of...

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Power and speed be hands and feet.

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

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

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