Believe Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

67 Believe quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Emerson’s essays and poems champion individual conviction, and these 67 excerpts distill that spirit. Expect a mix of poetic insight and practical urging that still feels fresh today.

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Every man believes that he has greater possibilities.

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Tis curious that we only believe as deeply as we live.

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Every man believes he has a greater possibility.

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To believe in luck ... is skepticism.

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Our moods do not believe in each other.

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Shallow men believe in luck.

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I believe that our own experience instructs us that the secret of Education lies in respecting the pupil.

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To believe in luck, if it were not a solecism so to use the word believe, is skepticism.

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The world is so beautiful that I can hardly believe it exists.

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Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action.

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If you believe in fate, believe in it, at least, for your good.

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There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.

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The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco.

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That which we do not believe, we cannot adequately say; even though we may repeat the words ever so often.

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What is the end of human life? It is not, believe me, the chief end of man that he should make a…

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They can conquer who believe they can. He has not learned the first lesson in life who does not every day surmount…

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Belief and love,--a believing love will relieve us of a vast load of care. O my brothers, God exists. There is a…

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If you believe in the soul, do not clutch at sensual sweetness before it is ripe on the slow tree of cause…

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I please myself with the graces of the winter scenery, and believe that we are as much touched by it as by…

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Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty.

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Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.

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Read proudly--put the duty of being read invariably on the author. If he is not read, whose fault is it? I am…

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So in accepting the leading of the sentiments, it is not what we believe concerning the immortality of the soul, or the…

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I believe it is the conviction of the purest men, that the net amount of man and man does not much vary.…

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It is rare to find a man who believes in his own thoughts or speaks that which he is created to say.…

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I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own…

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We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds... A nation…

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To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart, is true for all men…

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Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have…

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

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Eloquence shows the power and possibility of man. There is one of whom we took no note, but on a certain occasion…

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Men are born to write. The gardener saves every slip, and seed, and peach-stone: his vocation is to be a planter of…

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I believe that our own experience instructs us that the secret of Education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for…

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Our moods do not believe in each other. To-day I am full of thoughts, and can write what I please. I see…

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

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I am so much a Unitarian as this: that I believe the human mind can admit but one God, and that every…

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A deep man believes that the evil eye can whither, the heart's blessing can heal, and that love can overcome all odds…

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I believe in Eternity. I can find Greece, Palestine, Italy, Spain, and the Islands, - the Genius and creative Principle of each…

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I can believe a miracle because I can raise my own arm. I can believe a miracle because I can remember. I…

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Meek young men grow up in colleges and believe it is their duty to accept the views which books have given, and…

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The order of things consents to virtue.

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Life only avails, not the having lived.

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A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine.

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No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.

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Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may…

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I am; therefore, I had nothing better to do than to think.

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In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern…

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The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a…

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