Facts Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

A little fact is worth a whole limbo of dreams.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

For every seeing soul, there are two absorbing facts - I, and the abyss.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

No facts to me are sacred; none are profane.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The orator is thereby an orator that keeps his feet ever on a fact.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

All the facts of nature are nouns of the intellect, and make the grammar of the eternal language. Every word has a…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The walls of rude minds are scrawled all over with facts, with thoughts. They shall one day bring a lantern and read…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Genius has infused itself into nature. It indicates itself by a small excess of good, a small balance in brute facts always…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The chief value of the new fact is to enhance the great and constant fact of life.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The poor and the low have their way of expressing the last facts of philosophy as well as you. "Blessed be nothing,"…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In these divine pleasures permitted to me of walks in the June night under moon and stars, I can put my life…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The regular course of studies, the years of academical and professional education, have not yielded me better facts than some idle books…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The history of reform is always identical; it is the comparison of the idea with the fact. Our modes of living are…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

An individual man is a fruit which it cost all the foregoing ages to form and ripen. He is strong, not to…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is not an arbitrary "decree of God," but in the nature of man, that a veil shuts down on the facts…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The moment our discourse rises above the ground-line of familiar facts, and is inflamed with passion or exalted thought, it clothes itself…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The poet alone knows astronomy, chemistry, vegetation, and animation, for he does not stop at these facts, but employs them as signs.…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Prayer that craves a particular commodity—anything less than all good, is vicious. Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. At home I dream that at Naples,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

As thinkers, mankind has ever divided into two sects, Materialists and Idealists; the first class founding on experience, the second on consciousness;…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Criticism is infested with the cant of materialism, which assumes that manual skill and activity is the first merit of all men,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In like manner the effect of every action is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds. The great…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We must learn the language of facts. The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A believer, a mind whose faith is consciousness, is never disturbed because other persons do not yet see the fact which he…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The primary wisdom is intuition. In that deep force, the last fact behind which analysis cannot go, all things find their origin.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact makes much impression on him, and another none.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I cannot marry the facts of William Shakespeare to his verse: Other men had led lives in some sort of keeping with…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to belie some other.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A fact is the end or last issue of spirit. The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisible…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let it suffice that in the light of these two facts, namely, that the mind is One, and that nature is its…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson