Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Things In Life Quotes, People Quotes

Our prejudices are our robbers, they rob us valuable things in life. People only see what they are prepared to see.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Things In Life Quotes , People Quotes

The intellectual life may be kept clean and healthful, if man will live the life of nature, and not import into his mind difficulties which are none of his.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Live Life Quotes , Men Quotes

Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end, not a mark of haste, or botching, or second thought; but the theory of the world is a thing of shreds and patches.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Nuts Quotes , Perfect Quotes

The narrow sectarian cannot read astronomy with impunity. The creeds of his church shrivel like dried leaves at the door of the observatory.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Doors Quotes , Church Quotes

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Attitude Quotes

[W]e pity our fathers for dying before steam and galvanism, sulphuric ether and ocean telegraphs, photograph and spectrograph arrived, as cheated out of their human estate.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Father Quotes , Ocean Quotes

Language is fossil Poetry.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Poetry Quotes , Fossils Quotes

Society always consists, in greatest part, of young and foolish persons. The old, who have seen through the hypocrisy of the courts and statesmen, die, and leave no wisdom to their sons. They believe their own newspaper, as their fathers did at their age.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Father Quotes , Believe Quotes

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Motivational Quotes , Badass Quotes

Each mind has its own method. A true man never acquires after college rules.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Education Quotes , Learning Quotes

A beautiful woman is a practical poet.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Beautiful Quotes , Women Quotes

The age of puberty is a crisis in the age of man worth studying. It is the passage from the unconscious to the conscious; from thesleep of passions to their rage.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs. RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks Greek architecture is the perfect flowering of geometry.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Notebook Quotes , Morning Quotes

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood; and if there is any truth in him, if he rests at last on the divine soul, I see not how it can be otherwise. The last chamber, the last closet, he must feel, was never opened; there is always a residuum unknown, unanalyzable. That is, every man believes that he has a greater possibility.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

I am not so foolish as to declaim against forms. Forms are as essential as bodies; but to exalt particular forms, to adhere to oneform a moment after it is outgrown, is unreasonable, and it is alien to the spirit of Christ.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Essentials Quotes , Body Quotes

Shakespeare will never be made by the study of Shakespeare.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Study Quotes , Influence Quotes

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Wise Quotes , Wisdom Quotes

We know who is benevolent, by quite other means than the amount of subscriptions to soup-societies. It is only low merits that canbe enumerated.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

Happy is he who looks only into his work to know if it will succeed, never into the times or the public opinion; and who writes from the love of imparting certain thoughts and not from the necessity of sale - who writes always to the unknown friend.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Writing Quotes , Public Opinion Quotes

To the men of this world, to the animal strength and spirits, to the men of practical power, whilst immersed in it, the man of ideas appears out of his reason. They alone gave reason.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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