Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 47

• When the act of reflection takes place in the mind, when we look at ourselves in the light of thought, we discover that our life is embosomed in beauty.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Philosophical, Reflection

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.34, University of Georgia Press

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• We denote this primary wisdom as Intuition, whilst all later teachings are tuitions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Teaching, Intuition, Tuition

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.30

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• Art is not to be found by touring to Egypt, China, or Peru; if you cannot find it at your own door, you will never find it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Egypt, Doors

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• It is only when mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen. If the intellect were always awake, and every noble sentiment, the man might go in huckaback or mats, and his dress would be admired and imitated.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Mind, Dresses

  "The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

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• Live, let live, and help live

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Kindness, Live Life

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• Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Clouds, Fickle

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Carlyle (1841). “Essays”, p.13

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• Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Selfish, Anatomy And Physiology, Astrology

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.102, 谷月社

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• Every man contemplates an angel in his future self.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspiring, Angel, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.437, Рипол Классик

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• Self sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Real, Sacrifice, Self

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.127, Harvard University Press

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• If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply, the population. When it reaches its true law of action, every man that is born will be hailed as essential.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Law, Essentials

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.132, Harvard University Press

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• A weed is a plant whose virtue is not yet known.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Weed, Virtue, Plant

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• The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hero, Soul, Youth

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.99, Library of America

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• She shows us only surfaces, but she is million-fathoms deep.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Surface, Shows, Fathom

  "The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1843 - 1871".

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• Is not prayer a study of truth, a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spiritual, Prayer, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.70, Harvard University Press

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• A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Children, Attitude

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.244, Library of America

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• Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Pain, Poetry, Silence

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2415, Delphi Classics

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• It is one soul which animates all men.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Soul, Beams Of Light

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.502

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• Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Men, Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.16, Graphic Arts Books

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• He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind, he has descended into the secrets of all minds.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Learning, Secret, Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.20, 谷月社

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• We want but two or three friends, but these we cannot do without, and they serve us in every thought we think.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friends, Thinking, Two

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Myerson (2013). “The Selected Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.166, Columbia University Press

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• Science does not know its debt to imagination.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Science, Imagination, Doe

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.5, Harvard University Press

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• I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Hate, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.278, Harvard University Press

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• We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Faith, Believe, Men

  1860 The Conduct of Life,'Worship'.

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• Power and speed be hands and feet.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hands, Gnarly, Feet

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. V (in 51 Volumes)”, p.63, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Boys, Giving, Accomplishment

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.406, Рипол Классик

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