Wise Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let us be poised, wise and our own today.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks he is free.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Humility is the secret of the wise.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is a festival only to the wise.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wise men are not wise at all times.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The day is always his, who works in it with serenity and great aims.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

That you are fair or wise is vain, Or strong, or rich, or generous; You must have also the untaught strain That…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Aristotle and Plato are reckoned the respective heads of two schools. A wise man will see that Aristotle platonizes.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

That is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual; the wise man wonders…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Times are the masquerade of the eternities; trivial to the dull, tokens of noble and majestic agents to the wise; the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The wise and just man will always feel that he stands on his own feet; that he imparts strength to the state,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

But wise men pierce this rotten diction and fasten words again to visible things; so that picturesque language is at once a…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for the deliverance from fear. It is…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

So all that is said of the wise man by Stoic or Oriental or modern essayist, describes to each reader his own…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am old, yet I look at wise men and see that I am very young. I look over those stars yonder,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

It is so wonderful to our neurologists that a man can see without his eyes, that it does not occur to them…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Plato says that the punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is, to live under the…

— 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

Manners have been somewhat cynically defined to be a contrivance of wise men to keep fools at a distance. Fashion is shrewd…

— 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

At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Will is the measure of power. To a great genius there must be a great will. If the thought is not a…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

But the wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting; that the State must follow,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence;…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are all wise for other people, none for himself.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The wise man through an excess of wisdom is made a fool.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is very hard to be simple enough to be good.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Five minutes of today are worth as much to me, as five minutes in the next millennium. Let us be poised, and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson