Famous Quotes / Ralph Waldo Emerson
1442 Quotations by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- 821. People are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
- 822. People care more about being thought to have taste than about being good, clever, or amiable.
- 823. People demand freedom only when they have no power.
- 824. People do not deserve to have good writings; they are so pleased with the bad.
- 825. People have the right to be stupid. Some people abuse that privilege.
- 826. People only see what they are prepared to see.
- 827. People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
- 828. People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The infer ...
- 829. People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.
- 830. People wish to be settled. It is only as far as they are unsettled that there is any hope for them.
- 831. People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.
- 832. Perpetual modernism is the measure of merit in every work of art.
- 833. Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art
- 834. Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gat ...
- 835. Philosophy is a study that lets us be unhappy more intelligently.
- 836. Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.
- 837. Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law its nine-tenths of the problem. Love is a promise, love is a ...
- 838. Poverty consist in feeling poor.
- 839. Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.
- 840. Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view.