Spiritual force is stronger than material force; thoughts rule the world. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Deep insight will always, like Nature, ultimate its thought in a thing. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The poorest experience is rich enough for all the purposes of expressing thought — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The learned and the studious of thought have no monopoly of wisdom. Their violence of direction in some degree disqualifies them to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The consciousness in each man is a sliding scale, which identifies him now with the First Cause, and now with the flesh… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Mankind have such a deep stake in inward illumination, that there is much to be said by the hermit or monk in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We hear eagerly every thought and word quoted from an intellectual man. But in his presence our own mind is roused to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Thought dissolves the material universe by carrying the mind up into a sphere where all is plastic. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The great make its feel, first of all, the indifference of circumstances. They call into activity the higher perceptions, and subdue the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The learned and the studious of thought have no monopoly of wisdom. Their violence of direction in some degree disqualifies them to… — ralph waldo emerson Copy Share Image
The preamble of thought, the transition through which it passes from the unconscious to the conscious, is action. Only so much do… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The world -- this shadow of the soul, or other me, lies wide around. Its attractions are the keys which unlock my… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is rare to find a man who believes in his own thoughts or speaks that which he is created to say.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The vocabulary of an omniscient man would embrace words and images excluded from polite conversation. What would be base, or even obscene,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The ancestor of every action is thought; when we understand that we begin to comprehend that our world is governed by thought… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first. It rises in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The man not only thinks, but speaks and acts. Every thought that arises in the mind, in its rising aims to pass… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is Art. From the first imitative babble of a child… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Eyes are bold as lions,--roving, running, leaping, here and there, far and near. They speak all languages. They wait for no introduction;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
And what avails it that science has come to treat space and time as simply forms of thought, and the material world… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Of the works of this mind history is the record. Its genius is illustrated by the entire series of days. Man is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The secret of drunkenness is, that it insulates us in thought, whilst it unites us in feeling. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
That which dominates our imagination and our thoughts will determine our life and character. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The solitary knows the essence of the thought, the scholar in society only its fair face. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Thought is the bud, language the blossom and action the fruit behind it.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Why should the way I feel depend on the thoughts in someone else's head? — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
