Famous Quotes / Ralph Waldo Emerson
1442 Quotations by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- 781. Oh man! There is no planet sun or star could hold you, if you but knew what you are.
- 782. Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
- 783. One definition of man is "an intelligence served by organs."
- 784. One lesson we learn early, that in spite of seeming difference, men are all of one pattern. We readi ...
- 785. One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary m ...
- 786. One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.
- 787. One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
- 788. One of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little avail.
- 789. One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it o ...
- 790. One owes respect to the living; but to the dead one owes nothing but the truth.
- 791. One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Character is determined more b ...
- 792. One thing you can't recycle is wasted time.
- 793. Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.
- 794. Only poetry inspires poetry.
- 795. Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
- 796. Optimism is a mania for saying things are well when one is in hell.
- 797. Optimization hinders evolution.
- 798. Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality ...
- 799. Our best history is still poetry.
- 800. Our best thoughts come from others.