"Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet": Well-Known Quotes by Writer Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson is a well-known American poet, author and thinker. Emerson was born on May 25, 1803. He died April 1882 at the age of 78 in Massachusetts.
Emerson is well-known as one thought-leader of the American Transcendentalist movement.
Emerson was a well-regarded writer and is very often quoted in speeches and in print. We have arranged several of his most famous quotes for your enjoyment.
The Famous Quotations by Ralph Waldo Emerson:
Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.
A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.
What omniscience has music! So absolutely impersonal, yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow soothed.
Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.
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.
I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.
What a searching preacher of self-command is the varying phenomenon of health.
There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.
The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
He who has a thousand friendsHas not a friend to spare,While he who has one enemyShall meet him everywhere.
For everything you have missed, you have gained something else and for everything you gain, you lose something.
Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see -- not to eat, not for love, but only gliding.
To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world sparkles with light.
Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.
What I must do is all that concerns me. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is harder because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.
When it is darkest, men see the stars.
Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
The things taught in colleges and schools are not an education, but the means of education.
Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.
Be careful what you set your heart on, for it will surely be yours.
If you can not find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it Dogen Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul unbelief, denying them.
So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine, and so much retrospect, that the path of each man's genius contracts itself to a very few hours.
Give all to love obey thy heart.
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