Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Men Quotes, Thinking Quotes

I think all men know better than they do; know that the institutions we so volubly commend are go-carts and baubles; but they darenot trust their presentiments.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Men Quotes , Thinking Quotes

Excite the soul, and the weather and the town and your condition in the world all disappear; the world itself loses its solidity, nothing remains but the soul and the Divine Presence in which it lives.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Spiritual Quotes , Weather Quotes

The language of the street is always strong.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Strong Quotes , Writing Quotes

God will not have his work made manifest by cowards

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Faith Quotes , Courage Quotes

Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Money Quotes , Debt Quotes

The secret of genius is to suffer no fiction to exist for us; to realize all that we know; in the high refinement of modern life,in arts, in sciences, in books, in men, to exact good faith, reality, and a purpose; and first, last, midst, and without end, to honor every truth by use.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Faith Quotes , Art Quotes

Every young man is prone to be misled by the suggestions of his own ill-founded ambition which he mistakes for the promptings of asecret genius, and thence dreams of unrivaled greatness.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Dream Quotes , Mistake Quotes

Is not prayer a study of truth, a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Spiritual Quotes , Prayer Quotes

Every book is good to read which sets the reader in a working mood.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Book Quotes , Writing Quotes

The difference between talent and genius is in the direction of the current: in genius, it is from within outward; in talent from without inward.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Differences Quotes , Inward Quotes

If we consider what happens in conversation, in reveries, in remorse, in times of passion, in surprises, in the instructions of dreams, wherein often we see ourselves in masquerade,--the droll disguises only magnifying and enhancing a real element, and forcing it on our distinct notice,--we shall catch many hints that will broaden and lighten into knowledge of the secret of nature.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Dream Quotes , Real Quotes

Since everything in nature answers to a moral power, if any phenomenon remains brute and dark, it is that the corresponding faculty in the observer is not yet active.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Dark Quotes , Power Quotes

Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Writing Quotes , Skating Quotes

Don't ever give up on something or someone that you can't go a full day without thinking about.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Giving Up Quotes , Thinking Quotes

These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Voice Quotes , Solitude Quotes

The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like the flu falls on all constitutions.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Fall Quotes , Ego Quotes

Whatever you do, you need courage.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Courage Quotes , Decide Upon Quotes

But in our experience, man is cheap and friendship wants its deep sense. We affect to dwell with our friends in their absence, but we do not; when deed, word, or letter comes not, they let us go.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Men Quotes , Deeds Quotes

A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Character Quotes , Loss Quotes

The babe in arms is a channel through which the energies we call fate, love, and reason visibly stream.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Fate Quotes , Energy Quotes