Famous Quotes / Ralph Waldo Emerson
1442 Quotations by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- 121. All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking
- 122. All truth is simple ... is that not doubly a lie?
- 123. All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.
- 124. All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
- 125. Almost anything can be bought for money-except the warm impulses of the human heart.
- 126. Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an oppor ...
- 127. Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
- 128. Always do what you are afraid to do.
- 129. Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satis ...
- 130. Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
- 131. An empire is an immense egotism.
- 132. An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less, until eventually he knows everythi ...
- 133. An honest God's the noblest work of man.
- 134. An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.
- 135. An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
- 136. An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.
- 137. And did you think that such a guest
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- 138. Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which ...
- 139. Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
- 140. Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.