Famous Quotes / Ralph Waldo Emerson
1442 Quotations by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- 1021. The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings.
- 1022. The great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness, the independence of ...
- 1023. The great man is not convulsible or tormentable, events pass over him without much impression.
- 1024. The greatest difficulty is that men do not think enough of themselves, do not consider what it is th ...
- 1025. The greatest genius is the most indebted person.
- 1026. The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
- 1027. The greatest homage we can pay to truth is to use it.
- 1028. The greatest man in history was the poorest.
- 1029. The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- 1030. The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.
- 1031. The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
- 1032. The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter ...
- 1033. The high prize of life, the crowning glory of a man is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which ...
- 1034. The highest compact we can make with our fellow is -- "Let there be truth between us two forevermore ...
- 1035. The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to ...
- 1036. The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.
- 1037. The imbecility of men is always inviting the impudence of power.
- 1038. The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with ...
- 1039. The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the ordinary.
- 1040. The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.