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

Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a little better; whether by a healthy child, a garden patch of a redeemed social condition; to know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invated by worry, fret and anxiety.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is a good ear, in some men, that draws supplies to virtue out of very indifferent nutriment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.

Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner.

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.

What you are shouts so loud in my ears I cannot hear what you say.

We become what we think about all day long.

What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invated by worry, fret and anxiety.

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

There is a good ear, in some men, that draws supplies to virtue out of very indifferent nutriment.

In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.