Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-05-25 – 1882-04-27) was an American philosopher, essayist, and poet.
Found 197 thoughts of Ralph Waldo Emerson
What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into a power.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they are the sanctuary of its intuitions.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't SAY things. What you ARE stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
