Top 25 Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson of 4214 - Page 89

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Education, Learning, School

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.34, North Atlantic Books

The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Success, Congratulations, Greatness

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.401

No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby - so helpless and so ridiculous.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Country, Baby, Witty

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.104, Harvard University Press

There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Motivational, Courage, Believe

We cannot overstate our debt to the Past, but the moment has the supreme claim.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Past, Mindfulness, Debt

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.107, Harvard University Press

Be an opener of doors

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Attitude, Opportunity, Doors

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.117, Harvard University Press

Marriage (in what is called the spiritual world) is impossible, because of the inequality between every subject and every object.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Marriage, Spiritual, World

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.322, Modern Library

But when you have chosen your part, abide by it, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Consistency, Trying, World

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.78, 谷月社

To be great, you must be misunderstood

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Misunderstood

In the Fiji islands, it appears, cannibalism is now familiar. They eat thier own wives and children. We only devour widows' houses, and great merchants outwit and absorb the substance of small ones, and every man feeds on his neighbor's labor if he can. It is a milder form of cannibalism.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Children, Men, Islands

I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mother, Brother, Father

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.22, Coyote Canyon Press

Adult males are what their moms designed them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mom, Adults, Males

He who travels in search of something which he has not got, travels away from himself and grows old even in youth among old things.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Being Yourself, Being Single, Old Things

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Faith, Religion, Authority

'Essays' (1841) 'The Over-Soul'

Man is a piece of the universe made alive

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men, Pieces, Alive

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Wallace E. Williams, Joseph Slater (1987). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men: seven lectures”, p.322, Harvard University Press

Art should exhilarate, and throw down the walls of circumstance on every side, awakening in the beholder the same sense of universal relation and power which the work evinced in the artist.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art, Wall, Awakening

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1409, Delphi Classics