Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Ne te quaesiveris extra." (Do not seek for things outside of yourself)

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It does not hurt weak eyes to look into beautiful eyes never so long.

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What new thoughts are suggested by seeing a face of country quite familiar, in the rapid movement of the rail-road car!

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The God who made New Hampshire Taunted the lofty land With little men.

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The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

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Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character.

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There will be an agreement in whatever variety of actions, so they be each honest and natural in their hour. For of one will, the actions will be harmonious, however unlike they seem. These varieties are lost sight of at a little distance, at a little height of thought. One tendency unites them all. The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens itself to the average tendency.

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Conformity is the ape of harmony.

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We do not yet trust the unknown power of thoughts.

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The poisons are our principal medicines, which kill the disease and save the life.

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There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man.

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Every word we speak is million-faced or convertible to an indefinite number of applications. If it were not so we could read no book. Your remark would only fit your case, not mine.

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As the farmer casts into the ground the finest ears of his grain, the time will come when we too shall hold nothing back, but shall eagerly convert more than we now possess into means and powers, when we shall be willing to sow the sun and the moon for seeds.

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There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant

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It is true that the discerning intellect of the world is always much in advance of the creative, so that there are competent judges of the best book, and few writers of the best books.

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I will not hide my tastes or aversions. If you are true, but not in the same truth with me, cleave to your companions; I will seek my own.

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There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are; a transfusion takes place; he is you, and you are he; then is a teaching; and by no unfriendly chance or bad company can he ever lose the benefit.

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The river knows the way to the sea: Without a pilot it runs and falls, Blessing all lands with its charity.

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There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade, for learned as well as for unlearned hands. And labor is everywhere welcome; alwayswe are invited to work.

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Happy is the house that shelters a friend.

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