Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function; living is the functionary. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Conversation is our account of ourselves...Conversation is the vent of character as well as thoughts...It is the laboratory of the student. — 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
In spite of warnings, change rarely occurs until the status quo becomes more painful than change. People seem not to see that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Happy will that house be in which the relations are formed from character; after the highest, and not after the lowest order;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Tis not important how the hero does this or this, but what he is. What he is will appear in every gesture… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Character repudiates intellect, yet excites it; and character passes into thought, is published so, and then is ashamed before newflashes of moral… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is the duty of men to judge men only by their actions. Our faculties furnish us with no means of arriving… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals. Strength enters just as much as the moral element prevails. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Life goes headlong. We chase some flying scheme, or we are hunted by some fear or command behind us. But if suddenly… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our people are slow to learn the wisdom of sending character instead of talent to Congress. Again and again they have sent… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Do you see that kitten chasing so prettily her own tail? If you could look with her eyes, you might see her… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions, because we have made them a texture of wine and dreams, instead of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There never was a strong character that was not made strong by discipline of the will; there never was a strong people… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The moral sense reappears today with the same morning newness that has been from of old the fountain of beauty and strength.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I hear therefore with joy whatever is beginning to be said of the dignity and necessity of labor to every citizen. There… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is no privacy that cannot be penetrated. No secret can be kept in the civilized world. Society is a masked ball… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade, for learned as well as for unlearned hands. And labor is everywhere… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
How much we forgive to those who yield us the rare spectacle of heroic manners! We will pardon them the want of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As men get on in life, they acquire a love for sincerity, and somewhat less solicitude to be lulled or amused. In… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Thus grows up fashion, an equivocal semblance, the most puissant, the most fantastic and frivolous, the most feared and followed, and which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; - read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is only when mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen. If the intellect were always awake, and every… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I am at a loss to understand why people hold Miss Austen's novels at so high a rate, which seem to me… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In dreams we are true poets; we create the persons of the drama; we give them appropriate figures faces, costumes; they are… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I am not much an advocate for traveling, and I observe that men run away to other countries because they are not… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. The… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The best bribe which London offers to-day to the imagination, is, that, in such a vast variety of people and conditions, one… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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 Image
