Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 10

• If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Wisdom, Book

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.93, Harvard University Press

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• But genius looks forward: the eyes of men are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead: man hopes: genius creates.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Men, Looks

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2006). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems”, p.88, Bantam Classics

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• We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mark, Aim, Exaggeration

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.42, Courier Corporation

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• We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Temptation, Gains

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.298, Library of America

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• A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Marriage, Funny Love, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838”, p.199, Harvard University Press

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• That man is idle who can do something better.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Laziness, Idle

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• Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Trust, Choices

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.148

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• Whom God has put asunder, why should man put together?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Marriage, Men, Together

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• Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.143, University of Georgia Press

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• Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Soul, World, Judgment

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• As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Dream, Greatness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Bliss Perry (1926). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.189, Courier Corporation

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• The things taught in schools & colleges are not an education but the means of education.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Graduation, Education, Teaching

  "Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

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• We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Goal, Challenges

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.42, Courier Corporation

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• In a world of infinite choice people are struggling to figure out what to do.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Struggle, People, Choices

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• Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Reality, Self

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.21, Coyote Canyon Press

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• Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning, and under every deep a lower deep opens.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Time, Nature

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.403, Library of America

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• A man becomes what he thinks about most of the time

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Thinking

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• Flowers are the earth laughing.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Flower, Laughing, Earth

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• An individual has a healthy personality to the exact degree to which they have the propensity to look for the good in every situation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Personality, Healthy, Looks

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• Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Leadership, Causes

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• We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Hope, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.44, Penguin

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• The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Pain, Attitude

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• This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Frustrated, Vision

  1837 'The American Scholar', lecture at Harvard University.

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• Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain. The mind does not create what it perceives, anymore than the eye creates the rose.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Perseverance, Stay Strong, Eye

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• There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Wisdom, Ignorance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2694, Delphi Classics

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