Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 20

• Accept your genius and say what you think.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Acceptance, Thinking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.297, Harvard University Press

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• Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Beauty, Art

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Stephen E. Whicher (1959). “The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.102, Harvard University Press

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• How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Good Morning, Nature, Flower

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.299, University of Georgia Press

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• Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Knowledge, Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.160

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• God builds his temple in the heart on the ruins of churches and religions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heart, Church, Ruins

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. V (in 51 Volumes)”, p.285, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Law, Good Man

  "Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

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• The greatest difficulty is that men do not think enough of themselves, do not consider what it is that they are sacrificing when they follow in a herd, or when they cater for their establishment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Respect, Self Esteem, Sacrifice

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.49, Harvard University Press

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• Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Art, Inspirational Life

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.526, Harvard University Press

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• Life will show you masks that are worth all your carnivals

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mask, Carnivals, Shows

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.487

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• The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Peace, Real, War

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. V (in 51 Volumes)”, p.296, Cosimo, Inc.

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• If we follow the truth, it will bring us out safe at last.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Positivity, Safe, Lasts

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.52, 谷月社

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• Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Witty, Fear, Humorous

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.185, Harvard University Press

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• What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Exaggeration Is, Vices, Function

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

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• By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Perseverance, Persistence, Littles

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.49, Courier Corporation

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• The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spiritual, Soul, Foundation

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• No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spiritual, Prayer, Learning

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838”, p.182, Harvard University Press

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• When a thought of Plato becomes a thought to me,--when a truth that fired the soul of Pindar fires mine, time is no more. When I feel that we two meet in a perception, that our two souls are tinged with the same hue, and do as it were run into one, why should I measure degrees of latitude, why should I count Egyptian years?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Plato, Years

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.151, Harvard University Press

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• Sorrow makes us all children again.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Grief, Condolences

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.277, Harvard University Press

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• The need for a rational consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Consistency, Mind, Needs

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• It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Graduation, Philosophy

  'Essays' (1841) 'Self-Reliance'

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• Every great man is unique.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Unique, Greatness

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There is a remedy for every wrong and a satisfaction for every soul.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Soul, Satisfaction, Remedy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• There is always a best way of doing everything.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Excellence, Way, Best Way

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.380

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• He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Friendship, Enemy

  "The Conduct of Life". Book by Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Considerations By the Way", 1860.

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