Values Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

The whole value of the dime is in knowing what to do with it.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In self-trust all the virtues are comprehended.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Walking has the best value as gymnastics of the mind.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ability without honor has no value.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. The one thing in the world, of value,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is nothing we value and hunt and cultivate and strive to draw to us, but in some hour we turn and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The public values the invention more than the inventor does. The inventor knows there is much more and better where this came…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The whole value of history, of biography, is to increase my self-trust, by demonstrating what man can be and do.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Homeopathy is insignificant as an act of healing, but of great value as criticism on the hygeia or medical practice of the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Money is of no value; it cannot spend itself. All depends on the skill of the spender.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Therefore we value the poet. All the argument and all the wisdom is not in the encyclopedia, or the treatise on metaphysics,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A right rule for a club would be, Admit no man whose presence excludes any one topic. It requires people who are…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We must not inquire too curiously into the absolute value of literature. Enough that it amuses and exercises us. At least it…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes. They have in themselves what they…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Logic is the procession or proportionate unfolding of the intuition; but its virtue is as silent method; the moment it would appear…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are many virtues in books, but the essential value is the adding of knowledge to our stock by the record of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

An imaginative book renders us much more service at first, by stimulating us through its tropes, than afterward, when we arrive atthe…

— 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

I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional. The soul always hears…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

What we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so. We form no guess, at the time…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Physical force has no value, where there is nothing else. Snow in snow-banks, fire in volcanoes and solfataras is cheap. The luxury…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The value of a dollar is to buy just things; a dollar goes on increasing in value with all the genius and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the bookworm. Hence, the book-learned class, who value books, as such; not as related to…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

For all our penny-wisdom, for all our soul-destroying slavery to habit, it is not to be doubted that all men have sublime…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Any relation to the land, the habit of tilling it, or mining it, or even hunting on it, generates the feeling of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The most useful man in the most useful world, so long as only commodity was served, would remain unsatisfied. But, as fast…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The democrat is a young conservative; the conservative is an old democrat. The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed,--because…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain; and there is no good theory of disease which…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes. They have in themselves what they…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The finished man of the world must eat of every apple at once. He must hold his hatreds also at arm's length,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

He needs no library, for he has not done thinking; no church, for he is himself a prophet; no statute book, for…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

For, the advantages which fashion values, are plants which thrive in very confined localities, in a few streets, namely. Out of this…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

But there is no end to the praise of books, to the value of the library. Who shall estimate their influence on…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson