Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Love Quotes, Educational Quotes

A mind might ponder its thought for an epoch, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach in a day.

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"Though many painters and sculptors talk glibly of "going in for photography," you will find that very few of them can ever make a picture by photography; they lack the science, technical knowledge, and above all the practice. Most people think they can play tennis, shoot, write novels, and photograph as well as any other person - until they try."

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It is the duty of men to judge men only by their actions. Our faculties furnish us with no means of arriving at the motive, the character, the secret self. We call the tree good from its fruits, and the man, from his works.

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Man is a piece of the universe made alive

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The first point of courtesy must always be truth.

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Without looking, then, to those extraordinary social influences which are now acting in precisely this direction, but only at whatis inevitably doing around us, I think we must regard the land as a commanding and increasing power on the citizen, the sanative and Americanizing influence, which promises to disclose new virtues for ages to come.

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I cannot forgive a scholar his homeless despondency.

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Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character.

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The divine gift is ever the instant life, which receives and uses and creates, and can well bury the old in the omnipotency with which Nature decomposes all her harvest for recomposition.

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Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.

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The inquiry leads us to that source, at once the essence of genius, of virtue, and of life, which we call Spontaneity or Instinct.

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Life is not measured by its length, but by its depth.

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Power and speed be hands and feet.

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What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects.

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So shall we come to look at the world with new eyes.

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Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.

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No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can't dishearten it.

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There are three wants which never can be satisfied: that of the rich, who wants something more; that of the sick, who wants something different; and that of the traveler, who says anywhere but here.

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Genius is intellect constructive.

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When there is no vision, people perish.

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