Famous Quotes / Ralph Waldo Emerson
1442 Quotations by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- 581. It is proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.
- 582. It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the w ...
- 583. It is the ignorant and childish part of man that is the fighting part.
- 584. It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtine ...
- 585. It is very hard to be simple enough to be good.
- 586. It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.
- 587. It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.
- 588. It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when y ...
- 589. It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
- 590. It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
- 591. It the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.
- 592. It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to d ...
- 593. It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
- 594. Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.
- 595. Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
- 596. Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.
- 597. Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
- 598. Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
- 599. Know how sublime a thing is to suffer and be strong.
- 600. Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hands; and there is no knowledge that is not power.