Mind Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm happier. I guess I made up my mind to be that way.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A great mind is a good sailor, as a great heart is.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Stand guard at the portal of your mind.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is one mind common to all individual men

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The rich mind lies in the sun and sleeps, and is Nature.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Walking has the best value as gymnastics of the mind.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

American mind a wilderness of opportunities.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Only that mind draws me which I cannot read.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“so much of nature as he is ignorant of,so much of his own mind does not yet posess”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The the illuminated mind the whole world sparkles with light.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A divine person is the prophecy of the mind; a friend is the hope of the heart.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The energy of the mind is commensurate with the work to be done.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing divine dies. All good is eternally reproductive. The beauty of Nature re-forms itself in the mind, and not for barren contemplation,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

People forget that it is the eye which makes the horizon, and the rounding mind's eye which makes this or that man…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The religion which is to guide and fulfill the present and coming ages, whatever else it be, must be intellectual. The scientific…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is only when mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen. If the intellect were always awake, and every…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven depending on whether they compare it to something better and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Transcendentalist adopts the whole connection of spiritual doctrine. He believes in miracle, in the perpetual openness of thehuman mind to new…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching. The simplest utterances are worthiest to bewritten, yet are…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

When life has been well spent, age is a loss of what it can well spare,--muscular strength, organic instincts, gross bulk, and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is the property of the religious spirit to be the most refining of all influences. No external advantages, no culture of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Spring still makes spring in the mind When sixty years are told: Love wakes anew this throbbing heart, And we are never…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The refining influence is the study of art, which is the science of beauty; and I find that every man values every…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Shakespeare possesses the power of subordinating nature for the purposes of expression, beyond all poets. His imperial muse tosses the creation like…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when…

— 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

Herein is the explanation of the analogies, which exist in all the arts. They are the re-appearance of one mind, working in…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It must be that when God speaketh, he should communicate, not one thing, but all things; should fill the world with his…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am not engaged to Christianity by decent forms, or saving ordinances; it is not usage, it is not what I do…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Meantime the education of the general mind never stops. The reveries of the true and simple are prophetic. What the tender poeticyouth…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We dress our garden, eat our dinners, discuss the household with our wives, and these things make no impression, are forgotten next…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson