Top 25 Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson of 4214 - Page 28

Men are respectable only as they respect.

Men are respectable only as they respect.

Respect, Army, Men

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1954). “Basic Selections from Emerson: Essays, Poems & Apothegms”

Wherever a man comes, there comes revolution. The old is for slaves.

Men, Revolution, Slave

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838”, p.492, Harvard University Press

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beautiful, Truth, Honesty

The two terrors that discourage creativity and creative living are fear of public opinion and undue reverence for one's own consistency.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Creativity, Two, Creative

Difficulties exist to be surmounted.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sports, Difficulty

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco (1982). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.10, Harvard University Press

Our culture, therefore, must not omit the arming of the man. Let him hear in season, that he is born into the state of war, and that the commonwealth and his own well-being require that he should not go dancing in the weeds of peace, but warned, self- collected, and neither defying nor dreading the thunder, let him take both reputation and life in his hand, and, with perfect urbanity, dare the gibbet and the mob by the absolute truth of his speech, and the rectitude of his behaviour.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Weed, War, Men

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.74, 谷月社

What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects. What is life but what a man is thinking of all day? This is his fate and his employer. Knowing is the measure of the man. By how much we know, so we are.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fate, Men, Thinking

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.3078, Delphi Classics

Plato says that the punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is, to live under the government of worse men; and the like regret is suggested to all the auditors, as the penalty of abstaining to speak,--that they shall hear worse orators than themselves.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wise, Regret, Plato

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.56, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Time, Guests, Faces

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1854). “Poems”, p.407

If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inspirational, Motivational, Success

Quoted in Decatur (Ill.) Daily Republican, 19 May 1882.

The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty, Perfect, Lines

It is much better to learn the elements of geology, of botany, or ornithology and astronomy by word of mouth from a companion than dully from a book.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Book, Learning, Science

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson (1904). “The complete works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”

If you love and serve man, you cannot, by any hiding or stratagem, escape remuneration.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men, Careers, Hiding

Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Peace, Doe, Impossible

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.217, University of Georgia Press

We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related, the eternal ONE. And this deep power in which we exist and whose beatitude is all accessible to us, is not only self-sufficing and perfect in every hour, but the act of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one. We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are shining parts, is the soul.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life, Wise, Animal

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Jean Ferguson Carr (1987). “The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.160, Harvard University Press

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship, Relationship, Patience

1841 Essays: First Series,'Friendship'.

The sower may mistake and sow his peas crookedly; the peas make no mistake, but come up and show his line.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inspirational, Mistake, Lines

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4050, Delphi Classics

You have a place to live in this world which no other man can occupy; hence no competitors.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men, World, Places To Live

Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wise, Wisdom, Men

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.143, University of Georgia Press

Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature, Perfection, Crystals

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.27, Harvard University Press

When some external event raises your spirits and you think good days are preparing for you, do not believe it. It can never be so. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Believe, Good Day, Thinking

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Compensation and Self-Reliance”, p.63, Cosimo, Inc.