Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 91

• Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  People, Gullible, Fame

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• Genius has infused itself into nature. It indicates itself by a small excess of good, a small balance in brute facts always favorable to the side of reason.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Balance, Sides

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.217, Library of America

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• Nature has her own best mode of doing each thing, and she has somewhere told it plainly, if we will keep our eyes and ears open. If not, she will not be slow in undeceiving us, when we prefer our own way to hers.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Eye, Pride

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.65, Harvard University Press

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• There is no man of Nature's worth
  In the circle of the earth.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Men, Circles

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.92, Delphi Classics

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• Intellect is a fire; rash and pitiless it melts this wonderful bone-house which is called man. Genius even, as it is the greatestgood, is the greatest harm.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Fire, House

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2454, Delphi Classics

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• Make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind will give you bread.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  What Matters, Giving, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.137, Harvard University Press

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• Nature paints the best part of a picture, carves the best parts of the statue, builds the best part of the house, and speaks the best part of the oration.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  House, Speak, Paint

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.45, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

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• If you would not be known to do anything, never do it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Character, Known

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.150, Harvard University Press

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• When the gods come among men, they are not known.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Genius, Known

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.154, Harvard University Press

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• What is it men love in Genius, but its infinite hope, which degrades all it has done? Genius counts all its miracles poor and short. Its own idea it never executed.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Ideas, Miracle

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1529, Delphi Classics

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• Great geniuses have the shortest biographies. Their cousins can tell you nothing about them. They lived in their writings, and sotheir house and street life was trivial and commonplace. If you would know their tastes and complexions, the most admiring of their readers most resembles them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Cousin, Writing, House

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.635, Library of America

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• And what is Genius but finer love, a love impersonal, a love of the flower and perfection of things, and a desire to draw a new picture or copy of the same? It looks to the cause and life: it proceeds from within outward, whilst Talent goes from without inward.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Flower, Perfection

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.118, Рипол Классик

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• Behind every individual closes organization; before him opens liberty,--the Better, the Best. The first and worse races are dead.The second and imperfect races are dying out, or remain for the maturing of the higher. In the latest race, in man, every generosity, every new perception, the love and praise he extorts from his fellows, are certificates of advance out of fate into freedom.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Freedom, Fate, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1982). “Emerson: Selected Essays”, p.360, Penguin

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• In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their own creed and yours; whilst the charm of the study is in finding the agreements and identities in all the religions of humanity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Religious, Eye, Agreement

  "Thinking Outside The Church : 110 Ways to Connect with Your Spiritual Nature". Book by Jennifer Leigh Selig (p. 53), 2004.

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• The less government we have the better.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Government, Liberty

  Essays, Second Series "Politics" (1844)

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• The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Land, Agriculture

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.393, Penguin

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• Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Happiness, Being Happy, Self

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.134, Рипол Классик

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• All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Writing, Stolen

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• A man is known by the books he reads.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Reading, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.69, Harvard University Press

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• O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Reading Books, Reader

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1992). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.200, University of Missouri Press

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• The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Leadership, Eye, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.96, Harvard University Press

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• A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Acorns, Facts

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1849). “Twelve Essays”, p.10

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• For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Taxation, Benefits, Taxes

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• Talent may frolic and juggle; genius realizes and adds.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Add, Genius, May

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.204, Harvard University Press

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• Men do not believe in the power of education. We do not think we can speak to divine sentiments in man, and we do not try. We renounce all high aims.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Believe, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.179, Graphic Arts Books

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