The wise man, the true friend, the finished character, we seek everywhere, and only find in fragments. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Right is more beautiful than private affection, and is compatible with universal wisdom. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Of course, he who has put forth his total strength in fit actions, has the richest return of wisdom. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If you are wise, you will dread a prosperity which only loads you with more. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on memory alone. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Within us is the soul of the whole, the wise silence, the universal beauty, the eternal One. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Ah Fate, cannot a man Be wise without a beard? East, West, from Beer to Dan, Say, was it never heard That… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is a certain wisdom of humanity which is common to the greatest men with the lowest, and which our ordinary education… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom anpther's folly. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Wisdom is not found with those who dwell at their ease; rather nature, when she adds brain, adds difficulty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear. It is the storm… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man is a golden impossibility. The line he must walk is a hair's breadth. The wise through excess of wisdom is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every moment instructs, and every object; for wisdom is infused into every form. It has been poured into us as blood; it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Wise cultivated, genial conversation is the last flower of civilization, and the best result which life has to offer us,--a cup for… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The whole course of things goes to teach us faith. We need only obey. There is guidance for each of us, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If thou fill thy brain with Boston and New York, with fashion and covetousness, and wilt stimulate thy jaded senses with wine… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
More than the diamond Koh-i-noor, which glitters among their crown jewels, they prize the dull pebble which is wiser than a man,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
[The wise skeptic does not teach doubt but how] to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Be lord of a day, through wisdom and justice, and you can put up your history books. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Fear is the instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is, in all great poets, a wisdom of humanity which is superior to any talents they exercise. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Wise men read very sharply all of your private history in your look and gait and behavior. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Knowledge is when you learn something new every day. Wisdom is when you let something go every day. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Go where he will, the wise man is at home, His hearth the earth, his hall the azure dome. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To make knowledge valuable, you must have the cheerfulness of wisdom. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man is the facade of a temple wherein all wisdom and all good abide. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A wise writer will feel that the ends of study and composition are best answered by announcing undiscovered regions of thought, and… — 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
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