--- title: "23 Courses Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson" description: "23 Courses quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Plus more from Ralph Waldo Emerson and more Courses sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ac5/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_courses_the-course-of-everything-goes-to-teach-u_1028511.png" --- > [The course of everything goes to teach us faith.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-course-of-everything-goes-to-teach-us-faith/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ac5/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_courses_the-course-of-everything-goes-to-teach-u_1028511.png) > [Universities are of course hostile to geniuses.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/universities-are-of-course-hostile-to-geniuses/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/497/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_courses_universities-are-of-course-hostile-to-ge_1842450.png) > [The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-pest-of-society-are-the-egotist-they-are-dull-and-bright-sacred/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f6f/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_constitution_the-pest-of-society-are-the-egotist-they_1470218.png) > [Of course, he who has put forth his total strength in fit actions, has the richest return of wisdom.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/of-course-he-who-has-put-forth-his-total-strength-in-fit-actions-has/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4cc/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_action_of-course-he-who-has-put-forth-his-total_1305692.png) > [Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/of-course-money-will-do-after-its-kind-and-will-steadily-work-to/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a3a/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_courses_of-course-money-will-do-after-its-kind-a_1638981.png) > [Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/universities-are-of-course-hostile-to-geniuses-which-seeing-and-using/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b88/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_church_universities-are-of-course-hostile-to-ge_3205274.png) > [To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/to-map-out-a-course-of-action-and-follow-it-to-an-end-requires-some/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/03f/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_action_to-map-out-a-course-of-action-and-follow_2021663.png) > [The regular course of studies, the years of academical and professional education, have not yielded me better facts than some idle books…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-regular-course-of-studies-the-years-of-academical-and/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/60a/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_benches_the-regular-course-of-studies-the-years_2182624.png) > [Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/whatever-you-do-you-need-courage-whatever-course-you-decide-upon/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c72/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_action_whatever-you-do-you-need-courage-whateve_1834728.png) > [Of course you will insist on modesty in the children, and respect to their teachers, but if the boy stops you in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/of-course-you-will-insist-on-modesty-in-the-children-and-respect-to/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ed3/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_boys_of-course-you-will-insist-on-modesty-in_546710.png) > [The lessons of science should be experimental also. The sight of a planet through a telescope is worth all the course on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-lessons-of-science-should-be-experimental-also-the-sight-of-a/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/776/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_accounts_the-lessons-of-science-should-be-experim_3055916.png) > [If you know you are right, stay the course even though the whole world seems to be against you and everyone you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/if-you-know-you-are-right-stay-the-course-even-though-the-whole-world/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/217/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_courses_if-you-know-you-are-right-stay-the-cours_2082772.jpg) > [Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/work-and-thou-canst-escape-the-reward-whether-the-work-be-fine-or/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/026/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_being-honest_work-and-thou-canst-escape-the-reward-wh_755780.png) > [We infer the spirit of the nation in great measure from the language, which is a sort of monument, to which each…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/we-infer-the-spirit-of-the-nation-in-great-measure-from-the-language/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1b9/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_courses_we-infer-the-spirit-of-the-nation-in-gre_905485.png) > [ It is very certain that the strong British race which has now overrun much of this continent, must also overrun \[Texas\], and… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/it-is-very-certain-that-the-strong-british-race-which-has-now-overrun/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/792/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_age_it-is-very-certain-that-the-strong-briti_2491802.png) > [Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching. The simplest utterances are worthiest to bewritten, yet are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/converse-with-a-mind-that-is-grandly-simple-and-literature-looks-like/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ccd/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_air_converse-with-a-mind-that-is-grandly-sim_828820.png) > [Exaggeration is in the course of things. Nature sends no creature, no man into the world, without adding a small excess of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/exaggeration-is-in-the-course-of-things-nature-sends-no-creature-no/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/493/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_add_exaggeration-is-in-the-course-of-things_242266.png) > [We are shut up in school and college recitation rooms for ten to fifteen years, and come out at last with a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/we-are-shut-up-in-school-and-college-recitation-rooms-for-ten-to/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/660/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_afraid_we-are-shut-up-in-school-and-college-rec_66170.png) > [The whole course of things goes to teach us faith. We need only obey. There is guidance for each of us, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-whole-course-of-things-goes-to-teach-us-faith-we-need-only-obey/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/66b/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_communication_the-whole-course-of-things-goes-to-teach_1889185.png) > [If speculation tends thus to a terrific unity, in which all things are absorbed, action tends directly back to diversity. The first…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/if-speculation-tends-thus-to-a-terrific-unity-in-which-all-things-are/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e6e/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_action_if-speculation-tends-thus-to-a-terrific_946828.jpg) > [The purpose of life seems to be to acquaint a man with himself and whatever science or art or course of action…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-purpose-of-life-seems-to-be-to-acquaint-a-man-with-himself-and/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/930/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_action_the-purpose-of-life-seems-to-be-to-acqua_3141757.jpg) > [Men of extraordinary success, in their honest moments, have always sung, "Not unto us, not unto us." According to the faith of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/men-of-extraordinary-success-in-their-honest-moments-have-always-sung/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/20d/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_altars_men-of-extraordinary-success-in-their-ho_1396593.png) > [If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible-society, vote with a great party either for the government or against…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/if-you-maintain-a-dead-church-contribute-to-a-dead-bible-society-vote/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2b7/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_anticipate_if-you-maintain-a-dead-church-contribute_1305668.png) ## Other authors on Courses ## More by Ralph Waldo Emerson > [The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-history-of-mankind-interests-us-only-as-it-exhibits-a-steady-gain/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/if-we-will-not-interfere-with-our-thought-but-will-act-entirely-or/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/if-there-is-any-period-one-would-desire-to-be-born-in-is-it-not-the/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/a-man-cannot-speak-but-he-judges-himself-with-his-will-or-against-his/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/consideration-is-the-soil-in-which-wisdom-may-be-expected-to-grow-and/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/there-is-then-creative-reading-as-well-as-creative-writing-when-the/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [The order of things consents to virtue.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-order-of-things-consents-to-virtue/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [Life only avails, not the having lived.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/life-only-avails-not-the-having-lived/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/another-success-is-the-post-office-with-its-educating-energy/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/a-child-reminds-us-that-playtime-is-an-essential-part-of-our-daily/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/no-man-can-be-criticised-but-by-a-greater-than-he-do-not-then-read/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/coal-lay-in-ledges-under-the-ground-since-the-flood-until-a-laborer/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [I am; therefore, I had nothing better to do than to think.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/i-am-therefore-i-had-nothing-better-to-do-than-to-think/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/in-a-library-we-are-surrounded-by-many-hundreds-of-dear-friends-but/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-compensations-of-calamity-are-made-apparent-to-the-understanding/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/courses/ralph-waldo-emerson/#itemlist", "name": "23 Courses Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson", "numberOfItems": 23, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The course of everything goes to teach us faith.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Ralph Waldo Emerson" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-course-of-everything-goes-to-teach-us-faith/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ac5/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_courses_the-course-of-everything-goes-to-teach-u_1028511.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ac5/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_courses_the-course-of-everything-goes-to-teach-u_1028511.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ac5/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_courses_the-course-of-everything-goes-to-teach-u_1028511.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The course of everything goes to teach us faith.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Universities are of course hostile to geniuses.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Ralph Waldo Emerson" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/universities-are-of-course-hostile-to-geniuses/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/497/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_courses_universities-are-of-course-hostile-to-ge_1842450.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/497/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_courses_universities-are-of-course-hostile-to-ge_1842450.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/497/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_courses_universities-are-of-course-hostile-to-ge_1842450.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Universities are of course hostile to geniuses.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. 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